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Message: [QUOTE="megl, post: 1679636, member: 76634"] As said by alaskabill and mikejm, I think you made a good laydown of your kings but should have called/put villain on a wider range in the second hand (regardless of the actual result). Most important thing to extract from your post though is not the actual result of two specific hands; it is to recognize, sustain and apply your apparently good handreading skills. Of course math and odds apply to playing a certain hand against a certain villain, but hand reading also draws on so many subtle fragments of experience with that particular villain, table dynamics, timing tells, many small pieces of data that your mind processes on a subconscious level without you 'knowing' you're doing it. That's what constitutes the thing you call 'instinct' (see, imo 'instinct' is real and based on real data, not just some magic unexplainable mindreading mumbo jumbo) and if, as you say, your 'instinct' (your mind's ability to subconsciously collect, correlate and apply relevant data) consistently makes the right 'guesses' of your oppinent's hands, you should certainly not ignore that with arguments like 'objective odds calculations say I should call his shove even though i KNOW I'm beat'. That's just like saying 'I will only use some, not all, of the available information to make my decision in this situation' (i.e. you will only use the information that you are consciously aware of, and disregard your subconscious mind's contribution). So, congratulations on your good hand reading skills, keep honing your instincts, trust them and use them:cool: [/QUOTE]

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