Coin Flips

How often do you try to avoid flip and coin situations? And do you believe in your happiness when they happen?

I try to avoid these situations.

Although you wont lose money in the long run to coin flips, you wont win any either. Additionally coinflips have high variance, which means you have to have a larger bankroll if you participate in flips. I try to limit bets on neutral odds to save them for more favorable positions.

The only time I will intentionally bet/call into flips is if I am early in the tournament and plan on rebuying. Tournaments rebuy stacks quickly lose value, so if your going to put yourself in the position to lose, do it towards the beginning.

I go for flips with those big pairs and AQ,AK type of hands when im short stacked 15bb etc, or against short stack when im deep with better part of range.Basicly in sng format you need a lot of flips in mtt avoid them if its not necessary

I try to play coin flips only in situations where I have a stack to keep playing calmly in case I lose. On the other hand, if I'm shortstack you can also play some coin flip since the odds I can get are better than if I keep waiting and losing blinds

If I'm at the lower end of stacks, i play coin flips as I think it's better than losing blinds and being bullied

I avoid coin flips early, I would rather flip late in the game for chip stack, and position! Getting involved early probably will get you sidelined.

I do not mind coin flips if I do not know if I want to play for four hours and bubble. So maybe a half an hour to an hour in, I may be in two coin flips, to get me either into a good ITM position or to get my biscuits felted.

Ideally you would try to avoid them. But they are inevitable. You have to embrace them and understand that they are part of the game.

Always avoid a coin flip scenario, unless you're short stacked and card dead.

"Suppose you throw a coin enough times, suppose one day, it lands on its edge"

Legacy of Kain - Soul Reaver 2

You can't avoid coin flips, they are part of the game. If you constantly try to avoid them then you will miss a lot of good opportunities to win chips and put yourself in a good position to win tournament.

I do it every single day!

If i think im in good situation i dont avoid flips,because at the end of the day to win money you need to be lucky and win some importmant flips too

It depends on a lot of factors for me. In a tournament it's important for me: at what stage I find myself, how far up to the prizes, whether I'm lucky with the cards, whether I'm ready for risk, what rivals are at the table?
In the cach I'm more interested in what situation I'm currently in. If I have downstreaк, I play tight; if I have a upstreak - I can take risks more often.
And yes, I hope for the best until the last card on the river. Although the results show that I'm not particularly lucky.

Coin flips especially in tournaments are pretty unavoidable. In essence, you really need to accumulate chips in order to lose a flip or two. Cash games in my opinion is not a big deal to have flips (since you can rebuy). In late-stage tournaments, there is nothing sicker than have QQ vs AK and having to flip for it.

Apart from the bad habit of bingo players: allin with anything reasonable, anytime.
I've seen coin flips useful:
- quite early in freeroll/micro MTT's (example: you'll need to go all-in with any monster to prevent 3 or 4 people calling)
- when you are shortstacked
The above have the disadvantage that you're out if you loose, so be careful.
With a dominant stack, coin flips are the result of putting pressure on the opponent when they don't fold, statistically you'll be ok, because you can accept loosing due to the stack.

I always try to get ahead in your hands to avoid fllips

MIljanho said:

How often do you try to avoid flip and coin situations? And do you believe in your happiness when they happen?

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I dislike coin flip situations only because I lose more than I win, it is very hard to avoid it simply because situations happens like all-ins dictate the outcome of the tournament.


As a poker player, you have face coin flips to have a chance at winning the tournament.

I try to avoid coin flips. But sometimes you have to go for it. You have a big hand, low stack or the other guy is low, position, reading the players... Soon or later you got into a coin flip. Thats for sure. Examples of common coin flips: AKs vs QQ; AKo vs 99.