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Message: [QUOTE="canbora, post: 6890337, member: 9538"] I'm starting to think its best to not even engage with nits and tags. either fold the hand unless its very special circumstances and you KNOW you can do monster vs monster, or just leave the table. i have so many examples. Like, say... they open like this, smallish raise, say he has aA10 suited, and say I'm in the button with AJ offsuit. What am I suppose to do? Fold this? get real. I'm not three betting. Say the flop comes A 7 2 rainbow. They will panic and push you out with bigger and bigger bets. Position is irrelevant. Flight or fight is engaged, they're panic betting. Am I going in by the river with AJ offsuit? I dont think so. Or say its vis versa, I have a 10 suited and he has a j offsuit , or even AQ offsuit, whatever. Am I going to lose a full stack to that? ...also am I suppose friggen fold top pair with a good kicker? This happens ALL the time. This is why I rather call with other hands like J 10 suited for equilibrium. I never even considered my J or 10 would be good as an overpair, two pair would be even worse. MAYBE if it was 10 10 or J J.. maybe. I was shooting for the flush or straight. I wanted his stack. Because I knew he wouldn't lay it down and this betting proves this. zero emotional control. Ill give another example, last night. had a BAD run. Nothing I did was right. Im on button, folds to me, I raise with pocket 6s. SB three bets. Hes a TAG. I want to insta fold right there. Not even worth it. But I dont, becuase I have a pair, im on the button and you have to take chances with my stupid pocket sixes. Well, I drill a set. BUT its a monotone board. Sets arent suppose to fear the monotone, the chance he has me beat is slim and i can easly improve with a paird board. Less than 2:1 odds. He makes a generous, but not ridiculous bet. Of course I call. turn is a blank. Again, large, but not ridiculous bet. River comes, a fourth club, plus it gives four to a straight. I want to puke. I want to just puke. I KNOW my set is no longer good. He does NOT like his hand, but that doesn't mean hell fold. He checks. I said no way hes folding to a "bluff" (with a set). I check back, he turns over KJ clubs. Bro drilled a flush on the flop. He was scared, He feared the ace. But theres no way he was folding that. My instinct was right. I shouldn't have even been in the hand. And with that being said.... as is todays theme. I'm slightly changing my thinking again. I should have folded this. Although, I'm happy it happened. Its interesting and its a good lesson. So, I bought a lesson. Also, again, i find it interesting that he followed GTO bet sizing to a T. Thats not a good player. I dont care what anyone says. That dude that got me with the set of jacks. That dude was a good poker player. People like this. Thats not good. I want to be a GOOD poker player. and when i went off of instinct i was FAR better. I got worse as I learned GTO. Now I'm coming back, using a hybrid of the two. I feel thats the real answer. SO, I guess I had to get worse to get better. edit: one more story, for balance sake, young skywalker. On the subject of instinct. I had A9 hearts UTG. I raised. HJ three bets me, hes a TAG. I'm gagging over here, but I call. Flop comes all low spades. I have ZERO of this. I dont even think my overs would be good for certain. I check, he bets half pot. I'm like that feels like an AK c bet, or something like along those lines. So I check raised the whole pot, 75% of my stack. He thinks for five seconds and folds. After that he went on minor tilt for 10 hands reraising everyone. Again, zero emotional control. I took a very large portion of his 230bb (or so). He had like 160bb or so left after that. He was NOT happy. (At 50NL PokerStars) [/QUOTE]

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