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Message: [QUOTE="hackmeplz, post: 2394818, member: 89075"] My point was I'm not aiming for any one thing, I'm aiming for making the best decisions possible and other than certain icm situations am aiming for making the most +chipEV decisions possible. I am fully aware victory is possible and I am obviously always aiming for it. Honestly though, a lot of this is the reason I play cash games. In cash games the hard work you put in is a lot more correlated with success. In cash games if I get lucky in 10 hands and unlucky in 10 hands, they even out. In tournaments getting lucky one than unlucky one 10 different times is just as bad as getting unlucky 10 times in a row, while getting lucky 10 times in a row is what it means to go deep in a tournament. But I do play some tournaments. I just think it's important to realize what good decisions get you in tournaments. There is a probability distribution related to each player in the tournament. Making better decisions increases the expected value related to that probability distribution for you. You still are going to lose a lot, and that doesn't mean you should be satisfied with failure, but you should realize that if you've for example not cashed in 10 tournaments in a row (which in live tournaments for some people can be like an entire year's worth) you could still be doing everything right and just running bad. So yeah when I play poker, whether it's live or online, cash or tournaments, I'm trying to make the best decisions possible to increase my ev. In tournaments that means giving me a better roi, in cash it means giving me a better winrate. If I continue to make good decisions throughout, I will have done all I can do. In the long run that will lead to more cashes, more final tables, and more wins. I just think "aiming" for something in particular that you will most likely not achieve is just sort of counter to the psychological state you want to be in, when instead you should be focusing on making good decisions rather than being results oriented. Hopefully that made sense. [/QUOTE]

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