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[QUOTE="Bigsmak, post: 994437, member: 19923"]
Zac - its great to listen to everyone's points of views and I am enjoying this thread.

Personally I play more live tournaments than anything else. I love the local casino. I don't even play on-line that much anymore and I very rarely play the cash game at the casino but I do ok there.

OK - Why do I think Tournaments and Rings are different.

Lets take the OP hand - QQ vs a shown AK. 
Ring game - you are a fav (57% - 43% I think?)  and If I had that to play this hand over and over again for the rest of time I would love it. You can't lose in the long run.

Tournament - your 57% is just for that one hand. I strongly believe that you can't play the same in this situation. Its a case of all or bust. You win or you completely lose, its your tournament life up for grabs. You don't have the chance to play the hand over and over again to take your odds over time. I play a lot of live Tournaments (not the bigs ones yet.. ) and I would rather win as many pots without going to showdown as I can. I hate the whole luck or odds part of the game. I would rather stare someone in the eyes and make them fold. I just feel that in this situation, the opening hand of a tournament (which i try so hard never to play as people always want to play the first hand... it's a donkfest) - you will have better spots later and you can win the game by playing people, not the cards.

I don't know if this makes sense but why take the risk. There are times and places to do it. But I've said it before, I'd rather get all my chips in and force the decision than have to make one like this.
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