My biggest leak: stupidity NLTRN

[TNixon]

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I really hate betting the turn there unless you know villain will stack off with AT-AK there.

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Well, in that specific hand against that specific opponent, I knew he *wasn't* going to stack off with overcards, but I also knew he was steaming from a previous game where he flopped a set of 8s against my top pair, and I runner-runner full-housed him. So, he certainly would have called overcards on the flop, and might have called again on the turn behind.

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(no more snapcalling ftw)

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That's the really silly part of all this. None of those three situations (or any of the dozens of similar situations) were snap-calls. I thought about it, figured I had to be beat, and then put the money in anyway.

I'm just hoping that by publicly exposing my stupidity, maybe I'll be more likely to stop. [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

[daveT]

I feel you TNixon. I blame it all on learning math.

Normally, I lay my opponent on one specific hand and play accordingly. Well, bring in math. I see that this idiot just bet 1/2 pot on the river, and I can't bring myself to fold even though I know I am beat. Why? Because I all of a sudden second-guess my read, because I "only have to be right 20% of the time."

Or it's even worse when they bet 40 into a 600 pot. I mean, come on. Do I really "have" to call here?

[BarryLyndon]

I'm on massive tilt right now and if I feel I'm beat but i have "a hand," you are going to be very happy.

Barry