[Quads]

So you are playing poker, let's say a cash game. You pick up 77 on the button. You raise, pick up a couple of callers, the flop comes out with 3 overs, and it's opened, and raised before it gets to you, so, obviously, you fold.
The hand plays out, and the raiser turned out to have TTP. HHIG.

Next hand, now you're in the cut off seat, and the action comes around to you, and you have 77. Does the prior hand you just played (p7), influence the manner in which you play this hand?

(or you can take for example, (in the first hand) you pick up p7, flop a set, take down a huge pot, after getting all in and you stack another player at the table.)

Either scenario- Does one effect or influence the other?

Discuss:

[ipgyst]

Can we discuss what kind of poker we're playing if we're in the cutoff one hand and we have the button the very next hand?

[Quads]

Sorry-
Reverse those.

(edited)

[ipgyst]

If I lost the last hand, I play my normal game. If I pwned the last hand with my set of 7s, then I play the next hand more aggressively than normal (Super System 101 right there) and use my aura-of-invincibility to win some more $$.

[dad604]

If I won the last hand, I get more agressive. Good cards seem to come in bunches, same when running bad.

[trutan]

I think it all depends on position and the players. CO to Button doesn't change things as much as Button to SB. I also take into account if the players at the table are capable of thinking more than one ayer deep.

Of course, I'm a bit ashamed to say that I've hit a set one hand. Dealt a pp the next and folded to a raise because "...I'm sure that I can't hit a set two hnds in a row!"

[littlebu]

NO not from those seats.

[TheMightyJim2k]

no.

the last hand has had little to no affect on the metagame. Without some sort of shift in the metagame (for example: by you gaining a ton more information about other players or your image being radically shifted in their eyes) you should play the basic strategy that you would based on your hand, position, opponents, stack sizes etc.

This hand is not a paradigm by which the metagame will shift around, so it should not be treated with such importance.

[shadesofgrey]

Originally Posted by TheMightyJim2k

no.

This hand is not a paradigm by which the metagame will shift around, so it should not be treated with such importance.

i with ya mj2k, and the $.50 words are classic!

i look at the poker ying/yang/SoG as if avoiding punishment... but punishing others where i see fit...

do tell WTF the metagame is?1!? a focal point? i've focused on the pot & counting chips.. i believe the center of the table is the center of the table

past hands to me are akin to the roulette reader board.... different players, different games, different stakes... you can only step in the same river once!

its fitting this thread, i just concluded playing in my first evar 5/10 NL game tonight.. took some roll and bought in for 50BBs and knew i was not doing myself a favor buying in short... i was new to the construction manager game

i saw pots tonight i've never seen before in my life.... played my cards in the moment & left at midnight with 240BB. i still dont own my own construction company being that i write software

hands are tough, sometimes they get clentched to tight, or need to be shooken.. past hands dont influence me as much as players do & if i can put them on a past hand vs. the one i am holding lets play poker...

[hachkc]

In your example, no impact what so ever.

If the hand involved a bad beat of some sort, some sort of drama, player goes on mega-tilt for some reason, etc, it could impact how the next hand is played.

I'll take a stab at the metagame definition (and tmj2k will surely correct me if needed). I'd define the metagame as the "personality" of the table. As hands are played out, stacks are won and lost, bad beats are given and taken, a personality for table develops and shifts in small increments. Standard play does little to alter the play (hand example above) but occassionally dramatic hands can have a large impact. Guy gets a bad beat or two, starts to be a bit gun shy, folks starting playing into him a bit more. I'm sure folks have been in the zone before where your big hands hold up, your suited connectors hit and folks start alter their play against you. Some players may start gunning for you more and other folks start avoiding confrontations with the hot player. These become the intangible aspects of the poker game and involve more than just the reads on individual players but an understanding of the group dynamics in play.

My loosy, goosy definition.

How'd I do tmj2k?