Hello guys,

Some hands I want to pay even if is not the right play.

Intuition have a place in decision making?

Thanks

Yes, but you have to understand what intuition is. If you read the book Blink by Malcolm Gladwell, you will understand that intuition is the emotional response to pattern matching that has been developed over a large number of repetitions. If I have played a thousand tournament, I usually know intuitively the correct decision (even one that may look superficially incorrect like three betting with a weak hand), because the emotional portion of my brain recognizes the pattern before the cognitive portion does.

But to be able to trust your intuition, you need to

1. Have trained your intuition through thousands and thousands of hours of good, correct play
2. Be wary of making false associations and training yourintuition incorrectly (you hear people say things like 'Aces never win', or 'I always win with T8', and these false connections skew their intuitive judgement)
3.Be able to seperate intuition from wistful thinking (I always here someone make a truly bad call, like calling a PSB all in with a gut shot draw, then justify it by saying 'I had a feeling the 8 was coming'. this is intuition based on something that you have no way of intuiting. This was wistful thinking)

If you have a strong intuition to make a certain action, record the situation in your mind, and then do a full analysis of the situation later. yo might be surprised at how often your intuition is actually correct.

But no, don't ever follow your gut if it is forcing you down a wrong path because you hope to get lucky.

See #3 above ... There are a LOT of times in poker where you don't get the 'right' math to make a call. Poker players are really good at modifying their stories (ranges) to justify their actions.

I'm pretty big on live tells compared to others, so I do use intuition as a part of my game. There are other words you can coin for this 'thinking' but what it really comes down to is whether or not you believe the story the other player is telling you via their actions and bets.

As in #3 above, make sure that it's 'fact' based on not just because you want to be seen as a Hero/expert or have emotional influences against the other player. Learning how to fold is a huge part of the game. GL

There's two types of intuition. The first is where you sense something is not what you ordinarily would think it would be. An example would be where someone goes all in and you have to decide to call or fold. You have a feeling that he's weak and you call, winning the hand. What happens in that case is your sub-conscious is noticing things. That's great, but your goal should be to figure out what you saw that caused you to make the call. Maybe there is a tell. Maybe the betting sequence just didn't match up to what he was representing. In any case, once you figure it out, it won't be "intuition" any longer. This is rare for most players.

The more common "intuition" is when players decide, "I'm going to play 72o this hand because I 'know' the flop is coming 772." Or I'm going to call with my 2 outer because I'm going to hit. Or my lucky hand is J7. OP, this seems to be the type of intuition you're writing about. Sure, you can indulge yourself and do it. But don't expect to be a winning player.

Having willpower >>>>>>>>>>>> intuition

fold PF...and it's not even close (ainec)

are you thinking you will hit your card when your behind? or your 72 will win when a opponent raises 3x pf and your in the sb? perhaps you might call with 72 in some situations but not based on because you will flop a fullhouse lol when you both have 30-100BB.
Intuition is more i think my top pair/two pair/trips are beat here against a opponent who doesn't know/care about odds and calls and the flush/straight card hits on the turn river and he puts a bet in. you now fold.

You might have picked up that he called before like this.

lol i know people who have plently of intuition before the lotto. they say every week i feel im going to win lotto on saturday. Nearly all of them havent won more than $1000 from lotto in ten years and they spend close to $1000 every year.

Its said more as a joke lol. Im sure they would be very surprised/shocked if they won.