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Message: [QUOTE="diabloblanco, post: 349469, member: 4734"] I won't add a word to DM's post except to say that I took no offense to your response to my post at all. I simply gave an opinion. You were out of position, with a very poor starting hand, and you weren't in [b]any[/b] danger as far as stack size, so why "make a move"? You came out on the positive end of that fiasco because of a unexplainably bad play from someone else, but that should have cost you chips. When you play from EP, you need to stick to a fairly tight set of standards for playable hands, save for the few times you find yourself at an insanely loose table. This isn't a style issue, its a simple poker commandment. The later your position, the more you can open up your game and play some more interesting hands as long as your confident in your post-flop ability and are pretty sure you have an edge there. Playing silly starting hands from EP like that is bad for a myriad of reasons, but the biggest is that you have absolutely no chance to obtain information from your opponent during the betting rounds which virtually eliminates the chance of you gaining enough information about their hand to outplay them post-flop. Like DM said, at least you are thinking about [b]why[/b] you're making decisions, which puts you ahead of about 65% of the people playing online or live for that matter. But in this instance you probably won't find a decent player alive that will say you made the right play there no matter what your reasoning. Queen-Eight off is not even a decent hand and is monumentally worse than that from early position. That also isn't a style difference or opinion, its a fact. We have all been in hands we had no business in at many times, some we win due to dumb luck, others we lose because we shouldn't have been in them to begin with. Yours was the former rather than the latter, no shame in that. On a happier note, thanks for starting this thread, as it envoked a reply that has been immortalized in my signature.:) [/QUOTE]

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