You are a bad player. Trust me on this.

[Zybomb]

While playing in a tournament last night, I came across an example of what I was trying to say earlier, how the one downfall of playing with idiots, is it takes so many weapons out of your arsonal.

We were playing a very unorthodox blind structure of 50 starting chips, 1/2 blinds which were raised every half hour -- needless to say one hand could really hurt you (a standard raise and a CB is more than 1/5 your chips if it fails)

Blind were up to 2/4 -- I have 48 chips and Im dealt AJo. A player limps, and a player directly to the right of me makes a largish raise to 16. This player was definately a bad player, but he was aggressive, and I knew he had been raising with trash all night. A reraise all in here should take down the pot which is as big as half my stack here. So I do just that, and against someone normal this would of worked, but apparently K6s was enough to warrant a call here, the burn card is a jack (flipped up) , the flop and turn blanks, the river a 6.

The issue with fish is yea technically I know Im ahead here so I guess I "want" him to make the call -- but I really dont. I want to win the pot right there. I dont wanna go into some no skill drawout where Im a slight favorite. In fact if he showed me his hand and said Im calling your raise if you raise, Id probably fold -- I can pick a much better spot. I made the raise to pick up the pot because I thought it would (and it should have)

[Talking Poker]

Yet another example of single hand not holding up. And it's not like it was that unlucky, anyway. You were like a 60/40 favorite. I don't like to gamble (and I do consider that gambling) for all my chips, but in a game like that, there are plenty of people who do. So like you said, wait for a better spot. Sure, it removes a weapon from your aresonal. So what? Just adapt your game to fit the circumstances. Wait until you have a big pair to make that play, since you know you are going to get called. Or else just throw it away and avoid big pots like you know you should in that game.

I'm willing to bet that if you have kept records, you are well ahead in that game.

[Zybomb]

I think you misunderstood -- I wasnt saying that it was unlucky -- in fact I said if he told me he was gunna call if I pushed and then showed me his cards, I would of just folded to his raise. I made the play because itd increase my stack by over 50% and I knew he was weak and probably would (and should of) folded to the raise. I was just pointing out an instance where bad players limit the things you can do. (such as make this play, instead I would of had to fold to the raise. Or do a little stop and go without a pair on him -- that would of been funny lol) Its especially annoying in a game with such an odd blind structure, where you are forced to make moves

The adapt to your game part is dead on though. I think thats the single most important thing you can do in any tournament / cash game.