Originally Posted by
Alan Mendelson
Unfortunately, Rob, this time your strategy got you into a $10,000 hole and it took a conventional play to get you out of the hole. Even you recognize that a special play would not have gotten you out of your $10,000 hole and given you a $1,000 win goal.
Perhaps we can say that "special plays" work early in a session before you are in a big hole. But once you are in a big hole, you must play conventional strategy (at least in holding kickers when appropriate) to dig you out of the hole. That is, afterall, what you did here.