Blindcurve

If you are properly bankrolled for the buyin level of the tournament, time left before the end of the rebuy period should not be a consideration. What you might consider is: Are the chips where you can get them?: If you know, with certainty, that the chips are in the hands of opponents that are significantly stronger than you are, you might consider quitting. If, on the other hand, the chips are in the hands of weaker players or people about whom you know nothing , you should rebuy. You spent money putting chips on the table, you should play to get them back into your stack. Blind lev

No.The winning players are the ones with a net profit after tallying all of their wins and losses. That's it. That's the definition. I would suspect that 75% (I'm lowballing, here) of all the players who read this very forum have no earthly clue if they are winners or losers. I know because I'm one of them. I love to think of myself as a winner. I have had a really nice turnaround after having a mind-opening disaster of a Jan and Feb, and I had an excellent year last year. But am I a winner? I have 1 year of B&M play and 1 year of losing online play to make up, at least. I have o

This view as far as I'm concerned is exactly right. In fact, if you look at it this way, perhaps you should strive to be more entertaining. One of the things I love most is playing with people who I can beat up on, and who genuinely enjoy my presence. I like to be liked, anyway, but often poker is an adversarial situation. When people I met the day before say they were looking for me (because we had so much fun--hopefully not because I fished off my rack to them), I can't think of a better situation to be in. They're telling me, "We enjoy losing to you!" For most people, poker is enterta

AJs on the bubble. It looks good enough to steal with, but I can't get away when I get re-popped, esp. if they're slightly shorter stacked than me, but enough to do damage. Actually, AJs is bad but at least it looks pretty. AJ is a death sentence, and I knew it was a death sentence when I raised it, and I knew I was dead when I called the raise, and how did all those chips get from here to there so quickly and with so little fanfare. Rebuy?

I don't know whether you're an idiot or not. I certainly am so this suggestion sounds good to me. I have made the mistake of playing with 25 percent of my bankroll on the table and I'm positive many low stakes rec players do the same every day. And everyone has heard the stories of that guy who ran $25 up to $300, moved up and dropped it all. Which is fine, if that's how you like to play. I suppose you can keep taking shots at a big score. For me, it feels like I've lost $275, though and that destroys my objectivity, which affects how much heart I bring to the game. So I stopped playing

In an online sit'n'go, blinds 50 and 100, 7 handed, it's folded to me the SB and I pop it for 150 to make it 200 to go with T9s. The bet was a little small, admittedly, and I probably had a crack-head moment there, so it's no surprise when the shorstacked BB moves in for 580. Oops. Now there's 880 in the pot and it's 580 to me to play. I'm not sure I want to invest another 580 because it's a little more than 1/4 of my stack, but I have recently vowed to at least look at the math before I do something stupid.I pretty quickly decide that he's gonna move with any pair, any ace, any king, o