I've done much better by avoiding coinflips, but what do you do with preflop all-ins by your opponent when holding KK or QQ?
Hi, I have been dwelling on the "avoiding coin flips " idea for a while now, i think it's great .
On your problem, it would depend on who/table image the player is, how many chips we both have, and where abouts in the tournament we are ?
I have had idea that being good at folding allows one to go far in poker, it sorta sounds counter productive, work in progress.
If extremely serious about the tournament i can fold everything below AA if I have to , the trick is how serious can you be , and definitely where we are in the tourney, i could probably fold kk below if I'm more than 35bb or so early levels to an allin peflop shove, but around say 20bb maybe level 6 or higher, would probably call.... those are rough ideas though as it will definitely depend and my opponents table image, i could also fold early levels if 2 or more players are already allin,
I have been (semi preaching ) saying that poker is more than just any 1 pair, however how our opponents play counts for a large part of this,
If they keep forcing decisions with a 3rd of my stack sized bets etc, well at some point i will fight back, just feels that at times the quality of poker skill will be slowly going down though. ...