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Originally Posted by jack492505
The only thing I disagree with is when you said that you should quit when running bad because they are going to start calling you down wider.
i explained why.
its less profitable.
i dont recall saying that its cuz they start calling you down wider?? pls quotes.
if you have nothing to do but play poker, and whatever else you want to do with your time, like me,
you can play later. youre free to do that. your schedule can revolve around
when playing is the most profitable.
no one is holding a gun to your head to play right now.
its simple game selection/rejection, which is a fundamental. some say that its the single most important determining factor regarding your results. that it effects your results more than how you play your cards.
another reason: you may start tilting, or be on tilt, and not know it.> that's unprofitable.
lets say, that your winrate over a huge sample is Y,
but now, in this session, it's .2 Y because your image sucks;
you are gonna keep playing??
when tomorrow it will back to Y,
and you can just quit now, and do something that you enjoy more than poker with your time, or something that will boost your EV for the next session, like taking care of yourself;
and you dont give a damn about proving that you can beat them
today, and that the cards will eventually break even
today??. it's not a pissing contest about who can run better today for a non drooler, but a pissing contest about who can learn to play the game through hard work, and who can execute their acquired skills with thier cards, and
with thier management decisions.
you know you own them over the longrun, so let them win this one this time.
its no biggie. good quitting isnt an admission of defeat.
just the opposite, imo.
its something that droolers never do. they go off for 5-6 BI all the time when they have a sucky image on top of not knowing how to play.
recipocality would suggest that its a bad idea to imitate this tendancy??
stubborness is a hugely negative quality for a poker player to possess.
not quitting out of stubborness i would say is a fairly bad leak, imo, when quitting is the obviously most profitable play. (because youre only gonna play X amount of hours, anyways)
btw jack, i never said dont play showdown poker with a sucky image. you are putting words in my mouth.
i could take your end of the argument, and prolly beat you in a debate against my end of the argument, but i cant figure out what your end of the argument is. so far its just so much grasping at straws.
Last edited by stampler; 03-31-2012 at 01:48 PM.