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Message: [QUOTE="WJMKAM, post: 6204444, member: 475602"] I have too much desire to be in the hand. Even when I play carefully, I end up doing something dumb. I the last tournament, I spent the first 40% of the tournament just hold on and getting by. Then I moved toward the top. Then I called an all in. I had a slightly better hand. He hit the flop to take the lead, I hit the turn to regain the lead and he hit the river. I was again near the bottom. I worked toward the top, took another hit worked back to the top. With 11 left I was in 6th place and lost to the number 2. Of the 3 big dives, the first was a risk that definitely did not have to be made. The second one was strong, but also too aggressive on my part. The last one, strongly appeared to be a bluff. I had 99, the flop came 7,8,10. Opponent went all in. He had 88. Had I not made either of the first 2 mistakes, I would have had the larger stack and still been in the tourney. [/QUOTE]