Quote Originally Posted by sejje
Every time I go with my second impulse (see the "board paired" hand I just posted), I pay off some kind of hand.

I'm just a big freakin' payoff lately.
Two quick pieces of advice on this...

1. Don't pay off a guy on a big river bet unless you've seen him bluff before in a similar situation. Without a read, you have no reason to call a bet like that with a mediocre hand. The typical so-so internet player overbets good hands and doesn't bluff as much as you think he does.

2. Pay off less (or not at all) in full rings. 6 max games are loaded with players who bluff more often, maybe three or four times as much as the average full ring player. Any player worth a crap knows that short-handed games are easiest to bully, so sometimes you've got to stand up to the bully. But even in 6 max, don't assume (see #1). In full rings, most of the time it's not a bluff. I usually wait to see a specific player pull off multiple bluffs before I go after him in a full ring.