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Originally Posted by Under_the_Radar
It might "sound" like scared money, but its not. You're assumption couldn't be further from the truth.
In fact its the opposite, the comment was based on a [proven] long-term winning strategy. In nut shell, A) you don't have to get involved w/ every little conflict that comes up at the poker table, B) sometimes its better to fold and choose your battle a different time.
And playing for stacks does matter in the real world. Goofy players make goofy bets and goofy plays, I don't care who you are -in a live game its imposible to figure out anything that makes since aginst a goofy player in real time....they're just goofy and do goofy things. And because of there goofy plays that don't make since, often times you'll have plenty of more opportunity to clip them in future hands, a piece at a time...and not set yourself up in a situation where you're "guessing" if youre hand is good or not when playing for the whole stack.
Of course now we know it was set-over-set, its easy to speculate after the fact and not in real time sitting in a live game. I would have folded. I don't play 100% perfect poker, however if a "mistake" like this was the *only* mistake I made in a session I'd consider it fairly small.
Wow so you think folding the best hand in a $2500 pot is a small mistake? Folding the best hand here would be one of the biggest mistakes you can make in poker. If you find yourself folding to worse hands in this situation that is a massive leak and it will be impossible to be profitable. It would be different if this was heads up on the river and he shoves over a $200 bet for 1k, but you are getting 2:1 here, you really need to fully think through the hand and consider every possibility before making a decision.
This is definitely not one of the cases where one can afford to simply fold in hopes of finding a better spot. There are already nearly 100bb invested, you have to think you are most likely behind to fold.
