On small edges and self-defeating lines

[AL5AcE]

Nice post. I've always held the same thought throughout my poker career. Making decisions that were within my comfort zone. Sometimes the emotional assurance and information we get while not pushing very small edges is more +EV.

I just want to add to your example where after raising and folding to a 3bet and second guessing yourself. I've been in situations where it happened just like that, and a few hands later I find out that my opponent was a total donk and I actually had a very good chance of having him beat on that river. I may have not seen it earlier because I was multitabling or something. That feeling sucks.

Oh, and Feeney's "Inside the Poker Mind" is actually my favorite poker book to date. It was simply refreshing to read a book like that. It's like Sklansky's "Theory of Poker" except on poker psychology. It basically outlined everything I was doing that helped me win outside of poker strategy.