Hi, just found this site and i think it is very good. So im gonna decide to stick here, at least for a while. And im only playing poker during autumn and winter.
It are these players that get the best out of me. All of the sudden they start 3 betting many times. And my experience is these players call down every time when i go allin. Im a guy that wants to make that ft, and hoping some players drop quick, make some moves and end up three handed and go from there to get to first place. However these players dont let me make moves. I like to chose my spots, steal pots and stay in control. These players wont let me do that. I say this, i am afraid to lose. I HATE losing. Thats just in my nature, cant change that. I can act as if im not afraid, but i am. Not in the real sense of afraid, but just that i want to climb up in the payjumps.
Yes i know everyone says play to win. I can tell you this, every time i did this i ended up losing my whole stack. And i mean every single time. Because it just doesnt suit me to push the table. And i think the players also kinda feel/realize this. And start floating and stuff.
These threebetwars are also not my thing. And whenever i threebet with a decent hand i get 4 bet. OR they call and im toast most of the times. Yes ocassionally i get paid when i have aa or kk or another big pp. But even those not allways win ofcourse. And so when i dont have those hands im kinda lost. I now apply supertight strategy against this. For example i folded aq yesterday with last 11 or so. While he has been 3 betting me allready a couple times. Because i knew it was going in when 4bet.

BUT, the main issue is my sense of losing control. I cant really handle it when a cautious player all of the sudden starts 3 betting wars. I mean, how can someone so shift gears in his play? I know i cant do that. I cant all of the sudden abondon my previous play and shift into a more aggressive style because mainly it doesnt suit me personally. AND if i do it i feel insecure. I dont like 3 betting with kq, get called cbet with air, get called, and knowing that another barrel gets called again. Losing more then half my stack. ???????
Again, most of the times it seems that all i can really go with is big pp’s. And then i feel like im being a wimp for doing so. I can still win pots against the lesser players, i can bluff m, take the pots down, but not those that all of the sudden go agro. And they very seem to be knowing what they are doing as well.

I am either flipping against them for my whole stack. They either suck out on me. Just this time they do have kk or aa against my 88 or 99. They outplay me. They fold when i really have somethin.

So all in all i feel like my edge is 40-60 against them at best.