SCENARIO ONE

You’re heads-up at the end of a 50-player no-limit Texas hold’em freezeout. You have about 25,000 in chips but your opponent has double that. He has been chip leader from the start and has used his chip stack to bully both in and out of position. The blinds are at 1,000/2,000, going up to 1,500/3,000 in 20 minutes. When the heads-up started, you had equal chip counts, but you’ve been surrendering blinds for the last six successive rounds. The best hand you’ve had is 10-2os and you’ve felt compelled to fold each time because your opponent has either raised by four or five times the big blind or put you all-in.