Re: high stakes limit
Amazing that such an innocent post that I thought no one would pay attention to has caused such heated debate. Lestat, I don't think anyone is disputing that making an occassional play for the pot or even peeling on the flop is fine now and again. They are merely stating that if you pugnaciously fight for every pot with a hand like this is this situation, you're going to be in some bad spots and have a lot of tough decisions to make, therefore losing money. As Glenn stated, you are out of position and your opponent gets to control the pot size. Couple this up with the fact that you have a less than marginal hand once the flop arrives(an overcard that may or may NOT be live and a poor backdoor draw to a pipedream straight) and you have good reason to let it go -most- of the time(80% but obviously opponent-dependant).
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