Playing Deep..........

My month so far.....

A few weeks ago, I remember having some conversation about playing deep, and how comfortable I am with it as the AP games of old were all deep.

These stats suggest differently, and I think I need to face up the possibility that that I'm really misreading stuff in a lot of deep pots. Although I feel happy enough, and maybe I could just tighten up or whatever, I think I just have to start buying in for 100bbs and think about leaving tables where I approach 200bbs.

The chance that I'm wrong about being comfortable, and thus these stats actually being representative, comes to just too high a price.

This hand http://weaktight.com/3225986 is I think the last straw. I thought about it and went with my instincts, which PF, flop and turn were screaming weakness. River, it's hard to put me on a flush draw that check called down, and I infer from this he's more likely to bluff than say keep value betting AA/ set this strong.

Oh and PF's probably a fold obviously, but these are the scrapes I get into this deep, and there's just no need to put myself though the variance and potential negative winrate when I feel so comfortable 100bbs deep right now.

Some more deep disasters:

http://weaktight.com/3225993

http://weaktight.com/3225995

http://weaktight.com/3225996 - villain very bluff happy, potentially 3bet bluffing, but still I hated myself as I see raise getting in NNFDs as a huge leak for the most part.

So I'll set my BI amount to 100bbs for now, and maybe come back to an overall deep strategy later on.

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Oh and about that thread, I emailed FTP myself and got this reply:

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