On another thread, Spikej advised someone to review their play and many here talk about reviewing play after losing streaks, sessions and such. It led me to thinking of plays that deviations call for and the percentage of plays where I do make the play and where I fail to make the correct play for reasons of heat, presence of big bettors, my 3rd base position, ploppy concerns, looking the idiot if play fails, etc. I share these below and perhaps hearing from you might give me the cojones to do it.

Splitting tens - Never did it

Doubling A,8 - probably only did it 3% of the time when playing heads up.

Doubling A'7 - probably 50%, mostly on dealer 5,6.

Doubling A,5 and A,6 against 2 - probably only 40% of time it was called for.

6,2 and 5'3 against 5,6 - only 25% of the time it was called for.

Despite the above failures, I seem to have done OK in DD games but as I move to more 6 Deck play (H17, standard rules 1.2-1.4 cut off), I am thinking I need to do the deviations without hesitation (except splitting 10's).

I think newbies might be prone to the same issues.