Sorry, I use the wrong word, scared is not the right word! It's strategy you tried at the moment!
We can talk different strategies, what usually happens is that either I scare people away after the flop and win small, I drag people to bet and the flop&river turn in my favor and I win big or flop&turn go against normal odds and I lose.
And this is exactly what I talk about! When you try to play high stakes poker you will see that every card cost money! It's you who set up the price or others, but to wait one more card should be expensive for others if you are strong, if not you let others to get something for free! In small stake games or low cost tournaments you don't see that game play! In this thread we discussed a difference between playing 1/2 and 5/10 tables.
Now we discuss a specific hand! We all know what happened, what I am saying is that with different play I would definitely fold my Q10! But then you would still have problems with a guy with JJ and J on the turn. If you go all in before flop I would fold he would probably call with JJ and win! But situation after flop AK8 your all in would kick him out of the game probably, and if I would pay some pre-flop I would fold too on some higher rise! Now we speak about different styles of playing, but outcome is the same, and this works for many hands, the more you play more times you will encounter with same dilemma!
But in the end it's easy to talk about it when everything happened already. We make decisions in the seconds, but point is that you need to observe the table and to act accordingly, always take in consideration your stack, your opponents stack and of course pot! I need to point out once again that playing tournament games is different from playing cash games! Tournaments are not the same, everything depends on late registration time, starting chips, re-buys and add-ons, for each kind of tournament you will have to use different strategy!
This time everything went the wrong way for me, but that actually is the beauty of poker
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Respect! It's beauty of poker! I can't count how many times I was wrong, but life goes on! As long as you have some chips you will receive cards, as long as you receive cards you have some chances! Good luck!