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I suggest doing your best to pick +EV spots throughout, and not finding excuses to get your money in with the worst of it. If you get into the redzone due to a +EV play you made, so be it, let the cards come as they may. Don't pick -EV spots on this kind of basis, though.

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well said. it's not the end of the world to have a short stack, but i'm not going to make any marginally losing plays to chance getting there. and i really dont think theres much of an argument to do so.

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In that AJs hand, that's a +EV push, and that same +EV situation you're talking about after the blinds pass you, will still be there, and this time you'll have more chips, and you'll be building your stack back up. Theres no way i'm passing up +EV w/ a stack of 10BB, just so i could MAYBE (who says it gets folded to me, or that i get any good cards) get a MARGINALLY more +EV situation, just so i can get back to where i just was??! That really doesn't make any sense.