Quote Originally Posted by wonderland
ha, his face is pretty bad though aint it.

Ok i have taken your advice, looked more into SNG theory and i found that i was intuitively playing ok. Folding everything and playing hard when i had a hand.

Still though, i have to be firm and say that there are still these players that dominate and i can't figure them. No matter what i finally go in with against them as my chip stack dwindles, the board leaves me dry, i represent something and raise but they re-raise and if a showdown happens, they turn over the goods EVERY time.

After this initial post a played a few SNG games and had this very problem again. A chips stack leading monster hand bully in each game.

game one - went all in trying to double up with AQ. He calls (obviously) he turns over 3, 4 offsuit. The board comes down bla 3 bla 4 bla bla. He takes it. See what i mean?

game two - Same deal, chip leader who never loses a hand. I'm third place chip dog. I get AK, suited i think, and i decide to be aggressive against the aggressor with it. He re-raises me so i'm all in. Turns his cards over. Pair of queens. Hits a third queen on the board.

And this happens WAY more than is probable. I even watch other low stacks go in and i'm like, don't do it, he'll have the better hand. Coz i know the short stack aint getting lucky. Sure enough i'm right.

Edit: David Sklansky says - Your edge comes not from holding better cards, but from play in situations where your opponents would play incorrectly if they had your hand and you had theirs.
I wouldn't be suprised to see you get less and less responses, because to some, it might come off like your not listening.

If you wen't AI w/ AK vs QQ you were the underdog, so it's more probable that you are going to loose that race in the long run. And you said you went AI w/ AQ? You must've been pretty short-stacked. Anyway, AQ vs 43o is about 65-35 for you to win, so you should expect to win that in the LONG RUN, not a few hundred hands, not a few thousand, in the LONG RUN.

As far as the "Bullies" or "Aggressors" There is a reason the chip leaders tend to be such.

And as far as them "turning over the goods EVERY time." That simply isn't the case. But our human selective memory says it is. And if it's happening 99% of the time, I'd have to side w/ muzzard. (Don't worry, I'm fully aware of the fact that I suck.)