NoBBiR
Thursday, May 24th, 2007, 11:57 AM
QUOTE (Acid_Knight @ Thursday, May 24th, 2007, 6:20 AM)

To the OP:
I like helping people, so let me try and help you with a little blanket advice based on the hands that you've been posting.
Don't be thinking of what your opponent has that you lose to all of the time. In your other post you're like "does this feel like aces?" when the fact of the matter is, so what? Even if it does feel like aces, it might be queens, or jacks or tens, and since you're not folding here, ever, with your stacks, doesn't make much of a difference what he actually has. If he has aces, then you got unlucky that you ran into a cooler. This hand is no different here. You have a hand that is simply too strong NOT to put all of your chips into the pot, so you don't even need to worry about the villain's hand too much.
You should be thinking "what does my opponent have here" and not "what does my opponent have that I can't beat here" when you're in a hand. Don't be afraid of monsters that aren't there. If your hand was big enough to put your stack into the pot then it's unfortunate that your opponent turned up with a better hand, but it doesn't mean that you made a mistake by putting your chips in there. I mean, according to Sklansky you did, but the real world doesn't work like that.
Sorry, but I'm not sure I'm capable of that. I could almost stand to do this if I didn't play on Jokerstars

No, but seriously, I know what you're saying, I guess I just have a very negative outlook about what my opponent could have when I play poker I suppose.