[threeonefour]

put me in the "not taking a shot here would be criminal" camp. barry greenstein talks about this in his book ace on the river (on of the few pieces of advice that wasn't completely sophomoric)

basically he says that a great player shouldn't always be playing within his/her bankroll. sometimes there are oppurtunities that are just too valuable to pass up.


a classic example. B_buddy is a well known NL pro. he is loose and aggressive and generally makes a fair amount of money. everyone once in awhile (at least this used to be the case) he would go on insane tilt. the kind of tilt where he is pushing in near random hands preflop, get called, losing, reloading, and doing it all over again.

so lets say you are a 400$ NL player and you are sweating a 10/20 NL table and you notice that B_buddy just went on crazy tilt. he has already dropped three buyins with J9o 84s and 33 allin preflop. you should probably do everything you can to jump into that game imo. don't risk so much money that if you lose you can no longer play 400$ NL but sitting down with 1000$ or 2000$ and play a few orbit and see if you can get a premium hand. if you succeed you can probably making a whole month's worth of profit in a couple hours. if you fail you probably will be set back a week or so. and at the end of the day you are way +EV. GAMBOOL