In the mind of a fish

I have done some observing and have noticed a few things about a fish.
They have no idea about the maths involved when playing poker and care not to learn them, they don't care if that was a correct move or not, all they think is "It's there or it isn't".
A fish will often call you down to the river with second pair, a draw or better against the pot odds so you can't use the pot odds against them because they are clueless about such things, so you really can't bluff a fish by giving them improper odds to make a call because they have hit the board or are going to try to hit on further streets with their draw.

A fish will often call to most raises in LP with most connectors provided that there are 3 or more that made the call of the initial raiser.
Why? you may ask, because they think "I have a 56 and there are a few others who called before me, they must have high cards so that means my low cards are still in the deck".
Yes, this is how they think.

A fish will often call off small pairs in hopes of hitting a set even when they should be in push/fold mode and most will call an all-in regardless of your table image because they don't see that you have only pushed when you were strong, they only see the pair in their hands.
If they win the hand by badbeat and you lash out against them, they will say, "You should have bet more pre-flop and I would have folded", they lie, they would never have folded.

The best way to play against a fish is to make them pay for their cards and hope they don't hit, they will often call off most if not all their chips with a flush/straight even when the board is paired

Fifty50 Games @ pokerstars

I really enjoy playing these games as I can have a positive ROI in these about 40%+ of the time.

My strategies for these are simple, I start by using the PS player search feature to see who's multi-tabling, those are the players I'm attacking with loose raises, as we all know that multi-tablers will be playing only strong hands most of the time.
I will play tight against all others but paying attention to how they play.

If I happen to get a nice chip lead early on, I will start playing more speculative hands like suited connectors and A9s+, provided it's at the right price and I'm in position.

As I do with all games I play, MTT/STT, I will go by Harrinton's "M" factor whereas you take your chipstack/blinds+antes = "M", so if my "M" is close to or lower than 10 I am in push/fold mode as I am in the same mode if any raise I make would put me below 10.

The only thing that really annoys me about these fifty50 games is that there are too many donks in these which at times, mess around with my ROI.

I hope to post here again soon, GL at the tables all :)

The game has changed

I have been noticing a few changes in the game lately, the one change that makes me sick but also makes me happy at times is when players min-raise from early position with premium hands.

 These raises are also made with most PP(pocket pairs), at times are hard to put the player on a high or low PP, but if you pay attention to who makes these min-raises you might just be able to put certain players on a range.

 A few LAG players will play this way, which IMO is a big leak as they allow too many people in the hand who like to play speculative hands like suited connectors, I for one love to play broadway suited connectors against these min-raisers as long as my stack doesn't take more than a 5% hit even if the min-raiser is making the min-raise with a stack that he should have went all-in pre-flop with, which BTW is indicative of a huge holding.
 That is a leak on my part at times when I don't take effective stacks into account when deciding to make the call.

 Another thing I have noticed is alot of players are making calls for over half their stack to an all-in with holdings like suited aces, suited connectors, suited one gappers and all PPs without paying attention to what type of player is pushing all-in pre-flop.

 When it comes to pushing all-in in micro-tournies when SS(short-stacked), you should have a strong holding, something along the lines of A9s+ and 88+, if this seems too nitty, then call me "The big nit". I'm not sure when my next post will be, thanks for reading my blog and as I had said before, all comments and criticisms welcome.