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First let me say that it's not my intent to offend or annoy. The point of posting on here is to discuss hands and try to work together to improve. I make no claim to being an allstar tournament player and I'm doing my best to learn from posts just like this one.

I do have a few comments/questions about your latest post:

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Ask Gobbo, Carl, Ray, David Ross, Matt (mlagoo), Yuv, DeleteYou, or anyone else that spoke with me on break while I was playing with Patrik. I was NOT happy that Patrik was at my table, and was honestly terrified.

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Then why get into an all or nothing hand with him only 30 minutes away from the end of the day?

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That being said, I'm not going to just concede and let Patrik run the table. You know how I got my stack to 60k?

Playing (and winning) pots against Patrik Antonius.

Read my previous reports. I profited 10k when I coolered a pot committed opponent with QQ vs his AQ on the AQJ, and won AA vs 99 for a profit of 10k.

I played some small ball and we'll say profited another 10k.

So, that's +30k from coolers/small ball + 15k starting stack = 45k. I had 60k...so where did the other 25% of my stack come from?

The good aggressive player to my right.

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Yes, letting him run the table would be bad. But you haven't done that. You've hit him time and a again to show you're in control of the table and you've taken a sizeable chunk of his stack in the process. However, from what you've said, you have done so by forcing him to make tough decisions with the threat of elimination.

Your two biggest advantages at this table are (1) that you've the big stack, which gives you the ability to threaten others with elimination; and (2) that you have position on your most dangerous opponent. As you've described it, you've used those two advantages to outplay PA at the table and establish yourself as the table boss. By pushing all in, PA eliminated both of your advantages and put you to the test.

I'm not saying you shouldn't be going to battle against PA when the situation calls for it. But why go to battle without your weapons?

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Yes, I agree. Flat calling the initial raise uses your position. 5-betting allin uses your big stack. Flat calling the 4-bet gives PA the initiative to push the flop or make a pot committing pot size bet.