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Hey guys my name is Ben. I have been playing poker for about 2 years now, but only started playing regularly about a year ago.

I'm currently a winning player in live poker, but am losing pretty substantially in online microstake cash games. At first I thought it was just the bad beats, until I realized I need to learn how to hit the fold button even with big hand when facing aggression. A lot of people have said that by tightening up, I won't find myself in as many cooler situations. However, I found that I lose a ton of money with the premium hands like AK because its harder to fold TPTK and top two pair. It's easy for me to fold a weak top pair, but when I run into a fish I almost never fold TPTK because I think that they'd overvalue something worse. And they do, but a lot of the time they have 2 pair plus.

Any suggestions? I just find it hard to fold when I know that some portion of the time they will be value owning themselves.


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VorpalF2F
Joined: 02.09.2010

Hi BenLinden,
Welcome to PokerStrategy.com :welcome:

Playing live is quite different isn't it?
On line you don't get to look at the players body language.
They play differently too.

For a quick refresher course have a look at our No Limit Hold'em lessons overview articles first.
That article leads you through the basics and beyond.
It is even recommended if you've played a while _biggrin:

A lot of material in there might be obvious, and you might know it all already, but think of it as a "back to the basics" exercise.

Best of luck :gl:,
VS


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