Quote Originally Posted by r8ed
Looks like everyone covered your play here but this is what it boils down to:

If you don't lose your stack on this hand you are doing something fundamentally wrong. You're going to fold KK to a board with all unders to a short stack? Don't worry about it.

On a side note, you posted in the beginner's forum how you were doing well at 200NL by basically making less mistakes than your opps. I take it you've run into trickier players since then on a regular basis? What's the big difference between 100NL and 200NL that you have encountered? Just wondering because I have 20+ buyins for 200NL but I'm waiting until I get to 30. I wonder if I should get 40.
There isn't much. They're still out there donking off their chips to you. But on my site, they are a lot more maniacal.

For example I had a hand where I raised 5x BB on the button. BB calls, EP limp calls. I have AK

Flop comes rags with 2 diamonds. I'm not intending to cont bet here due to table image. BB checks, EP bets minimum, and I decide I got massive odds to chase overs. BB raises $25, and I read it as attacking weakness and intend to pump it to $75 if EP folds. But EP doesn't fold. he pushes. So I fold.

BB has AQ. Guess what EP had? K4 of fukn diamonds! No pair, just a flush draw that he didn't make.

I haven't really worked my way through whether it's more EV *FOR ME* to continue to play tight or whether I need to loosen up to counter the aggression or to become calling station? If I'm feeling good and I'm focused I can play 200NL and get my reads and do well, which I did the last couple of days. But 100NL is just a whole lot easier for me because the fish are passive rather than proactive. I can feel better about folding to an obvious show of strength, but not so in 200NL. Remember that Bodog is terrible for getting reads if you multi-table (which I don't mind in 100NL because it means *they* don't know i'm playing very tight aggressive).

I would not be comfortable moving up with less than 40. But that is just me. Interesting how i'm a very aggressive investor, but when it comes to poker quite conservative.