Goodnews
02-16-2005, 06:34 PM
On Sunday Feb. 13, I played a tournament and got blinded out on the first level. The main cause was one pot where I aggressively bet out from mid position with my AKs, only to get reraised all in by the button. I had a read on the button already and hes not the brightest type, and was probably holding low to mid pocket pairs. It was a coin flip for all my chips. I folded.
Later that day I was playing on one of the NL side ring games and won back my tournament buy-in when AKs comes to me again in late position. I had one caller in mid-position and the rest folded to me, again I followed my standard line of raising aggressively. It was folded to the mid position caller and he re-raised me all in for more or less all of my stack. I put him on low to mid pairs because of his attempt to limp so that he might spike one on the flop. I also put the possibility that he was playing a line from SS by limping with AA or KK and hoping for a raise preflop. But threw that one out the window the second I remembered him not seeing his hand of AA22K turn into AAKK2... Another coinflip. I fold.
So today I was in the can thinking about an earlier post of logic and instinct and how one particular player had the urge to push pocket tens when he had a read of cowboys or rockets on the other player. Except in this case, my instinct is more cautious. Am I losing money by being pushed off my coinflips when I already have something invested in it?
I understand in the long run I will break even, and that's all it will ever be, even. What worries me is my short term, since I move alot of money around and it is often tied up during withdrawals from different sites and busting out in certain situations means I can't play for a couple of days.
Am I losing on the long run by not taking coin flips in which I am already 'committed' to. Which incidentally is saving on the short run.
I don't understand what to do in those situations, the way I reasoned it out was that I decided to save my money so I can play a hand where I have a definite edge in. Is this logic better or worse than being able to take the risk of busting out?
Later that day I was playing on one of the NL side ring games and won back my tournament buy-in when AKs comes to me again in late position. I had one caller in mid-position and the rest folded to me, again I followed my standard line of raising aggressively. It was folded to the mid position caller and he re-raised me all in for more or less all of my stack. I put him on low to mid pairs because of his attempt to limp so that he might spike one on the flop. I also put the possibility that he was playing a line from SS by limping with AA or KK and hoping for a raise preflop. But threw that one out the window the second I remembered him not seeing his hand of AA22K turn into AAKK2... Another coinflip. I fold.
So today I was in the can thinking about an earlier post of logic and instinct and how one particular player had the urge to push pocket tens when he had a read of cowboys or rockets on the other player. Except in this case, my instinct is more cautious. Am I losing money by being pushed off my coinflips when I already have something invested in it?
I understand in the long run I will break even, and that's all it will ever be, even. What worries me is my short term, since I move alot of money around and it is often tied up during withdrawals from different sites and busting out in certain situations means I can't play for a couple of days.
Am I losing on the long run by not taking coin flips in which I am already 'committed' to. Which incidentally is saving on the short run.
I don't understand what to do in those situations, the way I reasoned it out was that I decided to save my money so I can play a hand where I have a definite edge in. Is this logic better or worse than being able to take the risk of busting out?