Sure.
If your opponent is playing like that you should win though!
Many people Iāve played cash games with are okay with losing certain amounts of money, if you take some line assuming theyāre not okay with losing it (and I have before!) and it doesnāt work out, itās a misread on the part of the player.
You even said thatās what you did. You maximized points but in doing so made it impossible to win
I made it impossible for myself to win. Had your Team played better and won more games, my choices donāt matter to you. This isnāt hard.
A cash game isnāt a tournament
I mean uh
Many (if not most?) people play for āhighest realistic positionā rather than take moonshots for first yeah? Likeā¦people like star and chess that take the āfirst or I donāt careā approach arenāt necessarily the norm in a lot of tournaments ime
Forgive me for assuming you wanted to win. My bad
Most people donāt aim for first when playing poker tournaments.
Itās drawing from your chess analogy in that itās a playerās responsibility to adjust for other peopleās motivations.
Sure in a 500 person tournament yes, in a 6 person tournament thereās no point in not gunning for first
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No Elli, itās MY fault they came in last. And that StarV/Urist won.
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A lot of people see it differently 
Yeah and I didnāt realize he was playing a different game until it didnāt matter anymore
This is a silly argument, in a tournament setting in a lot of games itās a core skill to read your opponentās motivation/what they want out of it. Itās not someoneās fault that they didnāt conform to whatever one.
Like Iām not arguing one side or the other (obviously I usually take the go for the win approach!), but likeā¦pretending one side doesnāt exist just seems silly to me tbh
Iām only talking about the one specific game I was in
I get being salty that you guys misread andres but his mindset wasnāt wrong by any means.
And I would personally not exclusively aim for first if I played mafia tournaments tbh. See my approach during LC.
And I never said Andres chose not to win to spite chess/myself. But him choosing not to try to win the tournament when he still could squeak out a win was a major tipping point for the whole tournament
I agree it was the large tipping point and that I would have failed to make the correct read there ( I would have considered the star/urist slot confirmed town). But I actually think the information was there to be read (both within the game play itself and nanook flipping goon).
Like the spirit of competition says you should try to win if itās still possible for you to do so