Quote Originally Posted by TheHaversham View Post
Just throwin this out there, but maybe slow down a bit and try not to get all your chips in pre-flop. Yes, you may have an edge, but an edge is not a lock. AA loses to a random hand a significant % of the time. You've talked many times about pot control, but playing huge pots preflop with QQ is simply dangerous. There's a time to push the edges, and a time to just focus on not getting busted. You've been getting busted a lot, why not wait till the river to decide if you're going to fall in love with your cards?
Now that I think about it more carefully I realize it went down differently than I stated. I was careless when I posted.

There was a raise from late position so I 3 bet. I get two callers. I move all in on the flop to low cards and the shorstack (33) calls and a medium stack (99) calls. I actually won 200 chips with this hand thanks to 99 getting it all in, but somehow 33 doubles up and the 99 are crippled. 99 and I had a good laugh about it how the worst hand always wins on merge.

but yes I see your point, I don't like taking unnecessary risks either. I'm actually playing some fixed limit cash games, which is very new to me. The variance seems very low which makes me very happy because 20 dollars can dissapear so quickly playing NL and tournaments. I just wish I was better at laying down top pair on the river lol to a reraise.