In for a quickie

I've gotta make this one quick but how painful was it to watch Scotty Nguyen donk off his HUGE stack and bust out in 11th in the main event last night??? Eventhough i knew it was coming seeing as i followed this years mainevent on pokerpages.com, it was still just a huge dagger for the fans to have him not at the final table, especially seeing as he could've coasted to the final table but instead, like most successful players, tried to capitalize off people playing scared and just trying to back their way into the final table....oh well, he had a hell of a run.

Unfortunately i won't be able to get in any poker today (these days are few and far between for me) but i did want to address thie issue of sucking out. I find donkeys do not understand the concept of a suckout. There is a the aggressive suckout, and the passive suckout. The aggressive suckout is when you are on the button, make it 3x bb and the bb pushes, and your getting 2.5 to 1 to call....you pretty much have to call with anything...so if u have Q10 and he flips over AJ, you made the right call...now if you happen to win the hand, the clueless donkey may cry about how you sucked out and how could you call his all in with Q10. Well that may be a suckout, but you were playing the pot odds and in a way, it's a good suckout, because you were getting the right price to call. If you watch any of the great players play, you will constantly see this (watch belowabove play a tournament). The passive suckout on the other hand is the guy who NEVER raises, he only calls. He makes 3 bad calls to the river, with ZERO aggression, and if he happens to suckout, good for him, and you want to toss your laptop into the pool, and quit playing online poker for ever seeing as he made 3 bad calls in ONE hand! The bottom line is that you can't fault someone for being aggressive. Aggressive poker leads to big stacks, which leads to final tables, which also leads to wins. There is a fine line between calculated aggression, and reckless aggression which is also the same line that seperates the donkeys from the studs, it is up to you to figure out where this line is.

Murph