Donkeys, can't live 'em can't win without 'em...

As anyone reading this knows, I've been playing in the women's league games on Pokerstars and despite the number of women playing who are the biggest, luckiest, donkeys I've ever seen I've been doing pretty well in these games. The first month I played I finished number 8 on the women's tournament leader board and I finished last month in 8th place as well.

I had really hoped for the top five but I seemed to run badly and play badly in these game the first half of the month. Around mid-month I realized the reason I wasn't doing so well wasn't run bad it was play bad. As I said above these games are so donkey filled it's not funny. I was letting the awful play of the luckbox donkeys put me on perpetual tilt and thus found it impossible to get anywhere in the games.

It wasn't obvious tilt, like cussing, screaming, mouse throwing tilt it was underlaying attitude tilt. With obvious tilt you tilt, scream, holler and get over it. With attitude tilt you often don't even realize you are tilted but it effects your game negatively. I was underestimating my opponents and I was overestimating them as well. Both over and under estimation is bad but by overestimating them I was screwing up my thinking about their ranges and such and this was causing me to make incorrect decisions. The same problem is true with underestimation in that I don't put them on correct ranges then either.

I have now faced the fact that 75% of the women playing in this league are inexperienced novice players, i.e. fish or donkeys. I was an inexperienced novice player at one time myself and I was as big of a fish/donkey as any of these women. So I decided to try to remember how I played and thought when I was at the same point they are with my play and honestly this has helped my game against them tremendously. I pulled up some old hand histories and looked through them and after being appalled at my horrendous play I realized what I was learning from these old hand histories is how these ladies are thinking. Now when involved in a hand against one of these fish, er I mean women I try to think how I would have played certain hands when I was where they are now and it really helps me make better decisions.

All in all donkeys get lucky and donkey suck out on us with their trash hands that they had no better sense (or experience) than to play but the more we get our heads around their thinking the better we can effectively play against them and have positive results.

So hoping for much better results this month - top five here I come (I hope).