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pokerpops:
I"ve been following a thread on another poker forum which has so much good stuff in it from so many deep thinkers that it deserves a wider audience.
http://blondepoker.com/forum/index.php?topic=59492.0
Hope the link is acceptable mods?
Some great stuff about the impact of variance on live MTT results and why they may never reflect a players" true abilities and then today, Richard "Action Man" Trigg posted this...
hhaha, this is an article i wrote on my blog over 6 years ago. still think its of use here.
SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 2006
Have You Got Lucky?
it is important after a win in an Multi-tourney or Sit & go, to evealuate your game, and realise the pots which you won, could have gone the other way.
On very few occasions is it possible to win a, say 100 runner tourney without winning at least one coin flip (50-50) and a lot of the times you may be forced to put your chips in with say KQ v A10 where u are a 60/40 dog.
Often it can be easy after winning a tournament to feel like you have played very good poker and have deserved your win. At times like these you have to remember he times you have been lucky in a single pot and realise that this won"t happen in every tourney. My own opinion is that you have to have luck on your side to win a tourney. The differnce between the good players and just the average players is that the good players give themselves the best possibe chance to get lucky by only getting involved in very few showdowns per tournament, this way they may only have to win say 3 coinflips per tourney as opposed to other weaker players who may need to win a lot more, due to their inabilty to steal pots and become more aggressive in the latter stages. I have seen many players who at one time were winning tourneys left right and centre, and they were last seen entering $2 bonus freerolls.
It is very naive to disregard luck in poker. But for a good player the luck comes, in that they may be lucky not to get unlucky....
Ie they will go into a pot with AK v AQ in a showdown obviously the AK is about 73% favourite but if you are involved in 4 of these coups, you are favourite to lose your stack by the 4th time...
They say that good players don"t understand how much luck is in the game and bad players don"t realise how much skill is in he game. This is probably right, however bad players often endeavour to learn more about the skill in the game. It is also important for the good players to not learn but understand luck and don"t get blinkered into thinking you are invincible, and never forget the times when you get lucky as this will help you take the beats that other players inflict on you.... because as they say "what comes around, goes around".........
I think it"s safe to say that he "got it" a long time ago.
I knew I had "run good" in that first GP this year, and I managed to repeat that in July. I just hope that in both I managed to apply the second half of my mantra for wishing anyone well in a tournament
"run good, play better"
pokerpops:
So, today is my last day at work before I jet off to St Kitts tomorrow.
It all still feels unreal to me. I played the satellites for that Grand Prix back in March because it was a cheaper way to enter the tournament and had no thoughts of any "added value" when I did so.
I played the tournament with no sense of fear that busting close to the FT would be worse for me than for someone without a golden chip. The very idea of me winning a trip to the Caribbean barely entered my mind over that weekend. My focus was on winning the tournament, which I was getting into position to do when the poker Gods decided to deliver AA to my opponent when I held AJ.
I picked up some $$$ over the weekend, thought that would make it feel more real, but US$ look like Monopoly money and thus still unreal.
Maybe, by this time tomorrow when I"m at Gatwick it will all sink in.
Whatever else happens over the next 8 days I will expose my poker game to a serious level of scrutiny vs some of the best of the UK"s live tournament players. I"m really looking forward to that.
Curlarge:
--- Quote from: david3103 on November 19, 2012, 08:30:50 AM ---
So, today is my last day at work before I jet off to St Kitts tomorrow.
It all still feels unreal to me. I played the satellites for that Grand Prix back in March because it was a cheaper way to enter the tournament and had no thoughts of any "added value" when I did so.
I played the tournament with no sense of fear that busting close to the FT would be worse for me than for someone without a golden chip. The very idea of me winning a trip to the Caribbean barely entered my mind over that weekend. My focus was on winning the tournament, which I was getting into position to do when the poker Gods decided to deliver AA to my opponent when I held AJ.
I picked up some $$$ over the weekend, thought that would make it feel more real, but US$ look like Monopoly money and thus still unreal.
Maybe, by this time tomorrow when I"m at Gatwick it will all sink in.
Whatever else happens over the next 8 days I will expose my poker game to a serious level of scrutiny vs some of the best of the UK"s live tournament players. I"m really looking forward to that.
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Hope the both of you have a great trip and a very successful one. Good luck ;D
PHIL_TC:
--- Quote from: Curlarge on November 19, 2012, 13:09:41 PM ---
Hope the both of you have a great trip and a very successful one. Good luck ;D
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+1 Dave hope you both have a fantastic time, look forward to hearing about all the success. But just enjoy it, soak it up, enjoy every single minute. Its been a long time coming x
AAroddersAA:
--- Quote from: david3103 on November 15, 2012, 12:43:58 PM ---
I"ve been following a thread on another poker forum which has so much good stuff in it from so many deep thinkers that it deserves a wider audience.
http://blondepoker.com/forum/index.php?topic=59492.0
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Great link. Everybody should read the above thread. There is some GOLD in it by some of the best in the country.
Still following it with interest. Reminds you that anybody who has done well in APAT events for example up until now may still be an expected loser against the field. It is so easy to think you have a big edge on the field (I will admit to having made this mistake a few times) then you get reminded that the reason you have done well is more down to luck (running good) than anything else. That"s the reason why I spend a fair bit of time reading Blonde it reminds you not to get above yourself and keeps you feet on the ground.
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