[elysium]

hi mike
whew, you got into a mess because of playing a possible winner out of position. it's hard to imagine winding up with a better hand; look at you there with top and a straight. and i've got to believe that had you known pre-flop that you'd be this strong, you would have gladly come in. you hit your hand pretty powerfully, but position is exerting its influence, and now you must call a raise that had only you known before about, you would likely have folded. positional info is tremendously helping your opponents too, all at the same time.

i don't like it mike. i think you have to fold. it seems that no matter what you do, you lose the maximum and contribute to the winner in this situation far more often than dragging down the same huge pot when you're in the lead. if you're leading here, they're folding. i find that when i'm out of position and contributing to the pot via someone elses raises, i do not have pot odds. oh sure, there's a math formula somewhere that mathematically tells me why i feel this way, and while i don't know what the formula is, doggonit i still feel this way. like when i was a kid and went to burger king with a dollar. i always knew that my whopper, fries and coke came back with a quarter and a penny. that was the mathematical universe of a saturday afternoon lunch. and nothing could change it. until one day, the lady behind the counter handed me back a measley dime. and still i wouldn't have cared only now, for dessert at the 'lil general' on my way home, i could only buy 1 hershey bar and nothing, instead of two hershey bars and change besides. a couple of empty bottles and maybe three hershey bars the old way.

no, i didn't know from inflation; a young louis ruykeiser with the latest keynesian economic graphs and charts didn't have to tell me i no longer had two hershey bars. i knew i didn't have them. i could feel it. the math for me was very tangible. like on this one mike; on this one my friend, i'm afraid you've only got one hershey.