Pre-flop advice for Online 0.1/0.2/0.4 (0.1) ante?
Can someone help me out with winning on this site (WPT gold)? I have won money in the past playing 0.05/0.1 and then I cashed some out. Then I started playing 0.10/0.20/0.4 with 0.10 ante from each player and I can't seem to beat that game for some reason. I play good hands but I can never get on a roll. If I win one big pot then soon after I either lose or a big pot or just go card dead. Then, next session I can rarely put together another good win. I don't know what I'm doing wrong, just looking for help and maybe talk with someone who is beating these games. Also, this game plays with mandatory straddle 0.4 and 0.1 ante from each player. My VPIP is 24% and my PFR is 16%. Those are the only stats I have. What should I be doing to adjust my ranges pre-flop with this structure?
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This thread is going to get deleted or locked because you posted it on the "Live No-Limit Hold'em" but I will give this a stab.
First or all, ClubWPT Gold is an incredibly high-variance site where players are going to have massive swings independent of their relative skill level or play style. No one bluffs, and no one folds, so you have to make the best hand in order to win money. Accept the fact that you are going to have long losing and breakeven stretches, but you will be rewarded when you run well and play disciplined.
That being said, based on the threads you have posted on the Online forum, you call too many hands pre-flop and play too loose and too passively in general. Stats don't matter. 24% VPIP isn't terrible on the surface, but if you are cold-calling offsuit broadways and defending bad offsuit connectors OOP you will get hollowed out in the long run.
Ok. I try not to cold call unless I'm on button or closing action.
In one of the threads you posted, you cold-called QJo in the CO. Then, when a solid winning poster on this message board said that QJo was a bad call preflop, you responded by saying that calling QJo was "tighter than GTO" which is not at all true. Those are the type of pre-flop decisions that burn money in poker, live and online, at every stake and on every site.
Yea I've tightened up since then and nothing has really changed
