which is the most important thing for you when playing a tournament
- Do not often come into play in early position.
(Position at the table: early, middle, late and the blinds)
- Make sure that some of the cards that seem "so beautiful", and the related decisions, in fact, bring only destruction.😕😕😕
- Success - for the most simple solution. Do not waste your chips on unnecessary calls.
- Learn additional techniques, such as protection and theft blinds bluff.
- Learn to play aggressively. This is one of the most important poker lessons - how to become an aggressor.😎
Every bet or move that I make.....does it help me get closer to the Final Table....YES / NO
What else matters? Playing well....playing correctly....table respect? Just get me to the money and then the final table!
Good luck !
What else matters? Playing well....playing correctly....table respect? Just get me to the money and then the final table!
Good luck !
j t said:
It always helps your mental toughness to learn to be okay with the statistical certainty of losing. You are facing tough odds and an uphill battle every time you enter a tournament, and you face a difficult enough time making it in the money, let alone first place. This is why bankroll management and focusing on the overall success of your play--rather than stats like wins/losses or ITM%--can be so important.
Keeping the size of your wagers to a small percentage of your total bankroll helps you withstand the really bad slumps where you just can't seem to cash very often, or at all. And focusing only on the quality of your playing can help you avoid getting burnt out; the grind of playing a lot of tournaments can be tiresome whether you win or lose, but it is less so when you are not getting stressed out about whether you are winning or losing money.
If you are already good at this mental sort of stuff, you might make better use of your time studying more of the theory part of the game.
The most important thing to me is the strategy I apply.
When the blinds are small I play more hands, but when the blinds go up, I apply my tournament strategy where I play certain hands.
A big part of the strategy is to keep calm. If I am happy with the way, I've been playing certain hands but lost anyway due to an unlucky river hand, I try to stay focused and not be too aggressive in pursuit of winning back the lost chip count.
When the blinds are small I play more hands, but when the blinds go up, I apply my tournament strategy where I play certain hands.
A big part of the strategy is to keep calm. If I am happy with the way, I've been playing certain hands but lost anyway due to an unlucky river hand, I try to stay focused and not be too aggressive in pursuit of winning back the lost chip count.
For me it's got to be maintaining focus over long periods of time. Just remembering to pay attention to what everyone does whether I'm in the hand or not seems to be my biggest hurdle, but if I do that the rest becomes much easier.
for me its to play my game. i really have to work on clamming down in the later levels where i tend to have my matusow moment. I can play an excellent game then in one hand make a move i know is foolish. then wonder why i played so well for 3 hours then blew it with one stupid move
