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[QUOTE="ventrolloquist, post: 5576990, member: 387497"]
90% of the time when I choose to ignore my intuition and play "correct" or try some fancy bluff while sensing opp has a hand I get burned.

One example is when a player in a tourney limped for the first time (and the whole game he had always been raising) from UTG, yet I still shoved my 99 short-stacked knowing he had an ace, only because it was "correct", because I feared one more orbit and the game would be unrecoverable yet I knew I would lose the tourney right there if I didn't hit a set.

More common is me firing off some crazy bluff for 2 streets on super wet boards knowing opp has top pair and I get called, and my intuition tells me I'll get called but I bet anyway convincing myself opp thinks at a higher level than they really do lol.

Moral is, intuition does play a role in helping you catch things that are out of the ordinary for a certain player and you can use experience to speculate from there. One of my biggest leaks is not trusting my intuition, and instead playing "correct". This is something I've seen Phil Ivey stressing as well in his masterclass, knowledge is good but if you've been playing long enough to have a good sense of players you can't use knowledge as justification to make a play that you sense will lose you the pot.

As for having 2 bad cards and going all in, that's not really what I see as intuition. Intuition is knowing when you're beat and when you're ahead based on thousands of hands of experience even if you don't necessarily understand why.
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