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[QUOTE="dj11, post: 945242, member: 13851"]
Here is my reasoning, and it is likely really wrong;  keep in mind I am a tourney centric guy.

Non-showdown winnings (in this case losses)

This suggests you are not going to showdown often enough.  You are not getting respect at the table so folks are betting you out on the river. And I'd guess often they see you as 'bluffable'.  Try an experiment and take 1 or 2 more hands (per hour, or session) to showdown in those marginal situations where you think you might be good.    An increase of just a little could change the respect offered you on the felt.  Add in a few more C/R's per session, again not a huge shift in strategy, but an increase in aggressiveness.  Both of these might help in gaining you some respect and cause your opponents to think one more thought before challenging you.  Often that one more thought will be 'don't'.

Also consider that with small pots, it is sometime good to take a hand to showdown even believing you are not good.  This can help in several ways;

-fairly often you will find you were actually good when you thought not...
-you will get them thinking you are game....leading to
-you might get more action on your monsters.

If you add the Showdown and non-showdowns together you show a profit, but at the table few will be able to do this.

If you are ring oriented, feel free to ignore all of this as I have no clue about it's ring game relevance.....:confused:
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