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Originally Posted by Hardball47
Being results oriented is actually helpful. We are, after all, playing for results: the result of cashing out more money than we cash in with.
If you're playing near the end of a 12-hour session and you're at risk of dumping your entire stack at the last hand of the night you're playing, you're better off thinking pragmatically and folding. Lest you want to literally undo the last 12 hours of grinding.
Cashing out with more than what we bought in for is not the goal. I could do this nearly every time if I wanted. The goal is to maximize EV (and have fun, of course!)
If you're playing scared money and overfolding and playing too passively because you're afraid of losing your winnings, then that's obviously bad. This is not a good mindset for poker and the pragmatic thing would be to not play at all instead of trying to squeeze a few more hands in.
I don't think I've seen this kind of results oriented thinking before. OP wishes he had gotten it in behind so he could have seen what would have happened?
If your read was right in the OP about villain and you don't have FE against his value range, then 3-betting flop would be pretty bad. Flatting seems like the clear play if you think he's c-betting his middling strength hands.