Lethal mistakes in poker tournaments

DS3 said:

I believe it was from the pro Alex Fitzgerald.
The simplest way to look at it just developing good and consistent habits. It's easier to cash than to run deep (one goal) easy to run deep than hit a final table etc.

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theANMATOR said:

I was with you up to the point when you mis-quoted the wrong pro.
That doesn't sound like anything Alex would EVER say. He's more like - build a big stack to make a deep run - or bust early and go catch a movie - kind of guy. Completely opposite of make the money first - then try to make a deep run.

And I agree with him - but your point is valid for sure if we are short and have basically no view of the final table with our tiny stack - try to min-cash.
But hopefully we are taking advantage of situations early and setting our self up in a position where we are not short to begin with. Making it into the money should be something that just happens - with our 40+bb stack it is a certainty. Yeah - we can't always be in that spot, but we should be playing hard not to be in the weak short stack situation limping into the min-cash and hoping for cards after we do.

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DS3 said:

Though it was few years ago (and I could be mistaken of course) I believe it was Alex Fitzgerald - so that is who I have always attributed it to.

The point being that banking on big scores to cover multiple buy ins is something which can ultimately catch up.

Outside of attributing the original quote, the reason I cite the idea is it makes sense for to someone such as myself. We are all not cut from the same cloth. If some are happy to play in a swashbuckling style and if it works then have at it. Others take a different route to cash.

I also said that goals need to be set for not just for cashing but reaching final tables. And of course someone responded directly to me that it made sense. So whether Fitzgerald or not, I am happy someone got something from the post.

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theANMATOR said:

Yeah for sure DS3. You added great input and sound logic to your view point. Hope you didn't take my response as a slant, I should of put in some smiley faces to make sure.

You are completely accurate with associating play style with personality and desire, if I'm correct in reading your - cut from cloth reference.
I believe it's important to have multiple weapons in our bag to defend and attack versus different opponents. In other words - I think it's vital not to play the same way all the time - so people can't TAG us as a certain player type. This makes us entirely unexploitable IMO - regardless of how we are playing, what cards we are holding, and who we are playing against.

But if its a choice for us to min-cash every event we play - or not cash at all for 20 events and then hit top 3 in the 21st event - the latter will most likely be 2x or more all the min-cashing in every event.

Still - I'm not discrediting your preferred method - like I (and you) said - personality and each situation in every event really dictates how we all play, how we approach bubbles and how we all try to improve.

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tipejo767 said:

Many of us have had the happiness of participating in tournaments and few to be among the last 10 winners, what mistakes do you consider lethal, that every player should avoid them?
considering that the pot has an excellent prize for the first 5 places

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