What's wrong with me.

[Chaostracize]

$100 Party MTT. 180 entrants, 80 left. I have t1540 in CO-1, with blinds at 50/100. MP1 bigstack raises to t300. His stats are 18/5/0 out of 65 hands.

I have 99. I see that calling will be 1/5 of my stack. My palms start sweating. I'm confused. I don't know what to do. And I fold. Can someone tell me what's wrong with me?

I was telling myself I had to play this for set value and I was hitting the 8-10 rule and that I'd just lose half my stack betting any flop checked to me and I totally psyched myself out of (I think) a profitable position.

Has this happened to you?

[schwza]

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I was telling myself I had to play this for set value

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that's your problem right there. 99 is very different from 33 when you're only 18x deep.

i would move in or call without question. i might fold 77, but i'd at least call with 88.

[sloth469]

Like what Matusow said to Raymer about his ball size.

[billyjex]

I would probably push here. I might call also, it would depend on if I think the button/blinds are loose and would play as well. I want this HU.

If you call you're not just playing for set value. It completely depends on the flop if i'm getting all my chips in but an A/K/Q absent flop and I'm probably getting frisky.

[RandomUser]

Funny thing about Matusow is his ball size is results oriented.

They are huge when the opponent folds the better hand to his bluff, but have someone call him with a better hand and beat him and they shrivel up while he cries on the rail.