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Originally Posted by SpewingIsMyMove
Why are you calling? Do you distrust your instincts? Do you want to show everyone how unlucky you are? Do you fear being pushed around? Are you just frustrated and want it over(inb the case of a tournament)?
There are a lot of reasons why decent players who can actually read the threat become sticky with hands. Sometimes it is good, in the case where aggressive players are running over you. Sometimes it is a sign of tilt. You have to look pretty deep in yourself to find out why you are calling when you intellectually have concluded you are beat.
Darn good question. I'm talking micro stakes cash games. Being totally honest I think it's a combination of the following:
I don't like being pushed around so there has to be some element of 'even if I'm beat I'll prove you can't bully me to fold'. Stupid but then the whole thing is stupid. I used to play exclusively micro SnG's where you can get away with this attitude more often. The change to cash needs me to break that habit.
I seem to have an entitlement problem as well because these large punts are normally when I'm dealt something 'good' pre flop like AK or QQ. There has to be an element of small child tantrum there because my hand was supposed to be 'good'. I'm not supposed to lose.
There is also an element of 'tilt' here in as much as these usually happen after I've painstakingly grown my stack and on the back of several winning hands. So it's not 'tilt' in terms playing angry/frustrated but more in terms of too much ego from winning previous hands.
As a new player I often find myself 'lost' in the later stages of a hand. I seem to have a default position of just betting big when I really don't know what to do. I reason that if I check and they bet I'm gonna have to put it down and emotionally I don't want to do that even when I should for the above reasons.
Now you have made me reason that out I might stand a chance of combating it.
Thanks.