What is the biggest leak in your game? (1 Viewer)

[Coyote]

Because I'm better than most people at tournaments. And most people are better than me at cash (at least in NLHE.)

I must have misread your phrase "my cash rate is very impressive".

 

[upNdown]

I must have misread your phrase "my cash rate is very impressive".

Oh, ha. I meant my rate of cashing in tournaments - I cash in a lot of tournaments, but it's more often min cashes. Enough to be profitable, but it would be nice to be MORE profitable by taking first more often.
No, my cash game is weak - I just don't read situations in cash games like I do in tournaments. It's weird.

 

[pltrgyst]

Mine is boredom. I’ll get tired of waiting for hands to play and will play any two cards sometimes just for the action.

Definitely, especially at lower stakes cash.

 

[pltrgyst]

Not really a leak, but for me, my biggest problem not having the ability to remember peoples actions, and who did what. I have tried all different things to try and be able to concentrate better, but it doesn't work.

Play more stud, where you have to remember not only general actions, but all folded cards. Either your focus will improve, or you'll be eaten alive.

 

[JeffG1013]

Biggest leak for me is "reading" way too many river bets as bluffs when they aren't ;-)

 

[MegaTon44]

Many leaks in my game. Here's a few:

1. Trying to pin villains on specific hands instead of ranges
2. Failing to squeeze preflop with a tighter table image
3. Triple barrel bluffing a calling station
4. Going into spewtard mode because of boredom
5. Not paying attention during hands I'm not in
6. Nursing my stack and getting blinded out in tournaments
7. Not embracing variance
8. Getting embarrassed when I make a bad play and beating myself up over it
9. Showing my hole cards without a strategic purpose
10. Hosting 30-40+ people and expecting to be able to focus heavily on playing

 

[JustinInMN]

My biggest leak, I think, is making huge river bluffs against stations when my draws have missed.

I think this is by far the most common leak in poker. I think everyone thinks shoving in a spot is just so baller and no one would ever think of that, and there is no way they can defend against that play. And then you wake up from the dream and hear "I call," and you're screwed.

 

[Saoliver]

Many leaks in my game. Here's a few:

1. Trying to pin villains on specific hands instead of ranges
2. Failing to squeeze preflop with a tighter table image
3. Triple barrel bluffing a calling station
4. Going into spewtard mode because of boredom
5. Not paying attention during hands I'm not in
6. Nursing my stack and getting blinded out in tournaments
7. Not embracing variance
8. Getting embarrassed when I make a bad play and beating myself up over it
9. Showing my hole cards without a strategic purpose
10. Hosting 30-40+ people and expecting to be able to focus heavily on playing

Well, I think you covered all of the bases. But as long as you are having fun...

Seriously, with my buds and some beers, it is money well spent for the entertainment. Though of course, we all want to be winning players. We just aren't prepared to put in the work.

 

[mashoo]

I'm pretty social when I play poker, even at casinos. I'm the jovial guy who wants to talk about sports and have some drinks. I'm a serious casual player. I can generally get the majority of the table to either have drinks with me, talk sports and lighten the mood. My greatest skill is probably getting the table to loosen up.

My biggest leak is when there is 1 nit who just wants to ruin the good time. I'm not talking about the player who isn't really into sports or the player who may not drink but their mood is in a good place.

I'm talking about that grumpy ass nit/super serious wanna be pro type. Talks smack about how others play hands, is rude to the dealers, etc. When I get involved with this player, I can be a try hard, and try to win every pot against this player. It doesn't happen very often but it's a big leak cuz either it works out and the table recognizes I'm trying to beat the sour apple at the table and we continue on with a good time, or it doesn't and I kinda moody and all the work I did to get the table to be fun gets wasted lol.

 

[Coyote]

I'm pretty social when I play poker, even at casinos. I'm the jovial guy who wants to talk about sports and have some drinks. I'm a serious casual player. I can generally get the majority of the table to either have drinks with me, talk sports and lighten the mood. My greatest skill is probably getting the table to loosen up.

My biggest leak is when there is 1 nit who just wants to ruin the good time. I'm not talking about the player who isn't really into sports or the player who may not drink but their mood is in a good place.

I'm talking about that grumpy ass nit/super serious wanna be pro type. Talks smack about how others play hands, is rude to the dealers, etc. When I get involved with this player, I can be a try hard, and try to win every pot against this player. It doesn't happen very often but it's a big leak cuz either it works out and the table recognizes I'm trying to beat the sour apple at the table and we continue on with a good time, or it doesn't and I kinda moody and all the work I did to get the table to be fun gets wasted lol.

True leak: Any particular feeling for or against any specific player.
No feelings are allowed in poker.
I anyway try to never play with people I hate (in home games that is, 'cause you have no choice in public venues), and also try to not softplay people I particularly love, out of honesty to the rest, but even that takes effort.

 

[Deltasidearm]

I defend my blinds too much and I like to pay to see my opponent's hands even when I know I'm beat. I also tend not to see an opponent's pocket pairs (resulting in a full house) when I've got a decent hand myself, which has cost me a couple of big pots.

 

[AceFour]

1. Trying to pin villains on specific hands instead of ranges
2. Failing to squeeze preflop with a tighter table image
3. Triple barrel bluffing a calling station
4. Going into spewtard mode because of boredom
5. Not paying attention during hands I'm not in
6. Nursing my stack and getting blinded out in tournaments
7. Not embracing variance
8. Getting embarrassed when I make a bad play and beating myself up over it
9. Showing my hole cards without a strategic purpose
10. Hosting 30-40+ people and expecting to be able to focus heavily on playing

Good list.

Plugged a lot of these in the last year except #4 and #9 and never had the #10 problem