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[QUOTE="bubonicplay, post: 1409451, member: 64838"]
Poker's gambling, it always is. Personally for me my goal is to maximize my expectation. You do realize sometimes people run good and make more money than Sklansky $$ right? I mean sure if say you sattied into the WSOP ME or something and normally play $5 games and are faced with a decision you should take the less profitable route for the guaranteed money. But when analyzing a hand we usually assume they are using decent BRM and their goal should be to simply maximize their expectation. You don't win a tourney by outlasting all the other people, you win it by taking all their chips. This is a pretty big misconception among a lot of lower limit players and why so many people wonder why they cash so much but don't ever get that elusive win. It's because while the better players are taking gambles and slightly +ev plays exploiting the bubble they're the ones sitting back trying to get AQ to fold to their shoves when they have KK while the better players realize they have a better shot of winning if AQ calls in that spot and they win.

Sorry for the rant but I do know a few really good tourney pros and they all say that the biggest mistake they see lower-stakes players making is worrying too much about survival and being unwilling to take profitable high-variance risks.
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