This has been bugging me for a whole day now, so I decided to post about it and see what others had to say. Please comment if you have any opinion or similar experiences at all, as I would like some feedback.

So occasionally my intuition tells me I should do something in a poker game, and some of the time I don't listen because it goes against the logical way the hand should be played. Of course my intuition isn't always correct, but I always feel like I've failed when I don't listen and then my intuition is proven right. Yesterday was a particularly frustrating session for me because I didn't listen to my intuition. Here's what happened:

I sit down in two 6xMaxx NL games and start browsing the web. Nothing much happened in my games; a small stolen pot here and there, an AK that bricked the flop, nothing out of the norm. Then while I was reading my email, one of the rooms popped up showing I had 6/3 os in the small blind. I fold the hand without thinking about it. As soon as I hit the fold button, the other game popped up showing I had 6/3 os in the small blind.

Right away, a voice in my belly said I should see a flop because I was going to hit a hand... I took a second and looked at the situation: 2 limpres, the button raised 4xBB. So if I had called, I would be OOP, with the BB and limpers still to act behind, and I was holding a crappy hand. Logically, I decided to fold. The BB and limpers called. The flop was 4-5-7 rainbow. It gets checked to the button who bets 3/4 pot. The BB calls and the limpers fold. The turn is an ace. The BB and button now get in a raising war and get all in. The river is a meaningless jack. The cards are flipped and the BB had a set of sevens. The button had a set of aces. If I had listened to my belly, I would have flopped the straight and at least stacked the button, maybe the BB as well.

So I brushed it off as random weirdness (like I always do when this happens...) and went back to set camping. Half an hour later, on a different table, I pick up 88 on the button. It's folded to me and I just feel that I'm going to win a pot with this hand. I raise, the SB instantly calls, and then the BB pushes all in for like 120 x BB. I figure he has aces, I get nervous, let the time run almost out, and fold. The small blind calls. The flop comes A-8-x. Don't remember the turn or river, but they both showed AK for a split pot. At this point the voice in my head was yelling at me calling me an idiot so I sat out. I went and did house work for like two hours, debating back and forth over what I should have done. After doing all the dishes, cleaning my bathroom from top to bottom, and sweeping all the floors in the house, I didn't come to any conclusion.

These moments of intuition don't happen very often (certainly not twice in one day), and of course that little voice isn't right %100 of the time. But, in hindsight, it seems like I'd be allot better off listening to it when it pops up.

Anyone else have similar experiences? If so, do you always listen to that voice, even when it goes against logical strategy for the hand?