My Poker Journal

[Joe]

Why would you be upset about this result? You called essentially what he had and had the better hand

I'm upset because I got knocked out of the tournament. My first thought was to fold because he's got a bigger stack so he might be just trying to bully everyone with his big stack and then he would get lucky on the flop and beat me or he could of had a pair of aces and he still would of beat me. I could of followed my instinct and folded but I went with conventional wisdom and called.
On the other hand I was right, I had the better hand so I'm kind of happy about that.
But I got greedy and it would of been very difficult to fold that hand so I needed a reason to call.
If I were in the same situation I would like to think that I would fold, but I would probably do the same thing over again.

[Joe]

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