I have not had time to play online poker for a bit so I have compiled all my holdem manager stats into useful categories and analysed my play. The first of many leaks I am tackling is mid position play, for which I am too loose and not aggressive enough. This is another way of saying I am becoming the dreaded ‘loose passive’ or (shudder) ‘calling station.’ I hate calling stations and I especially hate watching my sordid stationy exploits on holdem manager replayer, as I limp into another pot without taking account of the table’s only solid player laying wait in the big bind to insta-raise all the dead money. When you watch back hands it is easy to see how only a handful of mistakes per session can soon add up to losses in the long term. All it takes is a few limps with 77 or A9 in middle position and before you know it you have slid down the slippery slope of station-dem and start thinking that King-10 suited is a hand. I feel sick, sick to my stomach. The worst part is that I have a horrible stubborn streak and will call cbets and donk leads a lot, compounding flop errors and juicing up pots I have no business entering in the first place. When I have time to play again I am going on a strict diet of raise-only poker for a while. I am also going to stick to playing mostly on Saturdays which is by far the most profitable day of the week.
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