Umm..... I suppose...

All depends on the situation. Like I said, that's not normally how I play, like raising with a pair of 9's on a board with 2 A's on it.. If he could have beat me, he would have let me know. If I check it down I'm probably not going to win, but he could be drawing to anything and I want info, info in poker usually isn't free.. But, I didn't think he had the A, and I wanted to know and I won the pot.. If I dont, it didn't cost me much, but got me alot kind of thing..

Look, all I'm trying to say is if you play mostly cash games, then try to stick with Brat boys advice, if your playing alot of tournaments, throw the MF'r out the window because your not going to be really succesful long term IMHO. You HAVE to accumulate chips in the early stages of a tourney, you cant always do that waiting on top 10 hands. Late in a tourney, yeah you need to sometimes wait on big hands. But, if your in the top 5-10% of chips, then it gives you a chance to play more marginal hands from late position cheap. You cant do that if you dont have chips. If I get a good run of cards early, esp in rebuys then it's usually AI every other hand and off to the races. THAT is how those tournies are. But you also need know how to extract chips with marginal hands on tight passive tables whether in micro NL cash, or in tournies...