kissapig
Rock Star
Silver Level
I have a problem with big bets . If I have 100 bb and only one other player at the table with a comparable stack, eventually I will get into a situation where I am in position to fold but I don't. I know, in retrospect, that I should never have called with a pair of tens to a big bet on a rivered ace. Problem is I tell myself that it has to be a bluff and call down half my stack. Or I chase a flush with a bunch of pot bets until the river, wind up with a mid level pair and check call hoping for a bluff that never shows up. Bye bye stack again. This seems to be a pattern for me. Seems to happen when I am at or near the lead in a tourney and seated with another big stack. Stack vs stack. Is it an ego thing? Is there some basic betting pattern that would limit the loss? Only lose 20% on a flush draw or something like that? It takes a while to build that stack and I seem to lose it in 2 or 3 hands.