Do we think too much

[Benman]

Let me start out by saying I find this forum absolutely essential. I've plugged so many leaks it's not even funny.

Nevertheless, I wonder if we take it too far in trying to outthink ourselves in our card reading skills. Many times on this forum I see people who've been on the gas the whole hand freeze up when an overcard hits. They rationalize, well my opponent probably has one of those because....... Could it be that shorthanded limit poker is not that complicated, that once we've taken the lead we should keep it up in most cases until someone lets us know we're beat? This is just a general observation, and not a knock on any particular poster. I do the same microanalysis of hands sometimes, but I just wonder if it could be the wrong approach.