Tourney strategy

[Aequitas58]

Your travel time should have nothing to do with "playing the best poker you can." AA can very easily lose - but are you seriously trying to tell me that you're not willing to get your money in, while you have the odds?

Your bets and "moves" shouldn't be determined by travel time. Say you win a seat at the next WSOP... say on the first hand, you have AA and 4 people go all-in before you can act. You wouldn't call? You have the odds in your favor to start off a HUGE favorite.

This is an easy call...

E v e r y S i n g l e T i m e

As far as the idiots who push when you have the nuts, you have to consider:

(1) You *might not* get a chance to play the nuts. That is, the cards don't always fall your way. Tournaments are very short compared to what I consider a "streak of cards." You might hit great cards and easily cruise into the final table... or, you might never win a pot!

(2) Even when you get the nuts, where's the guarantee that you'll get paid off? Like you, I also have no problem playing poker when my win percentage is at 100%, but I can't wait to have that 100% throughout the course of the tournament. In most cases, tournament life is dependant on hitting a fair share of coinflips, and even those put you at 50%.

My $.02