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kinboshi:
This is where a lot of people have concerns about their game.

A lot of time it"s simply variance at play.  Sometimes it"s because you might be playing too tight/too loose, or not reacting to the change in gears from the other players.

One thing you have to be aware of is that if you are just trying to ladder from a long way out, you aren"t going to play optimally.  In fact, if others notice a player doing that it is exploitable.

One reason that people try to ladder is that they are playing in a tournament where the money means a lot to them.  They play scared.

You"re right though, it"s at these stages of tournaments when it really counts.

Swinebag:
I"m seeing double.
Isn"t this thread in the academy section now?

THEGUY84:
oops yeah managed to post it twice. didnt think i posted it right the first time.

Prob best reply to one or other posts here of in academy

Well I think I may open may game up too much.

Eck:
So you didn"t like our replies previously so just ignore that and start again  :D ??

Dan is correct 1st is thing don"t panic....was playing on wed night and down to 2 tables it plainly obvious quite a few hadn"t been that far before. There were about 4 or 5 guys who would open raise 6x and when everyone obv folds they show (was never lower than AK QQ +  :D)

This makes it so exploitable it is brilliant. so guy opens 6x , shows QQ next hand he opens 2x.......immed gets repopped and passes. Guy makes it 6x again (not joking this was becoming standard yet i was still getting away with 2.5/3x blind steals with filth) all fold, next hand i nick his bb with 29 i think.



It is all relative to stack sizes to how active you need to be etc and again there is no set formula just keep thinking what you are doing. It does get fairly straightforward when you get to the end and some of the time it does involve having the studs to shove them in to pick up dead money if you can identify people that won"t play back and sometimes it is laying a hand down that you think you should really be playing when you get shorthanded etc.

Said it in the other thread you started, post hands that you think have been contentious and may have caused you to not go as far as you thought you would. If you are getting to the last 30 of fields of over 300 on a regular basis though i wouldn"t worry too much tbh it will come.

Edit: sorry typed all this out and you have replied now but cba to remove post. Give examples of opening game up as it isn"t a bad thing as long as you know what you are trying to achieve.

THEGUY84:
Thanks eck for posting! I shall look over my hand history over the next few days and see if I can find any which may show up some probelms.

Like last night playing 6 handed tourney, deep in tourney I was in say top 10 guy on imediate right button raises and raises from cut off all the time showing wide range of hands. So Im in big blind he raised again so, I re raises him. He flat calls. I have junk.  A raggy flop I check he bets and I reraise again as he continuation bet all the time. Then he shoves all in so, I am beating nothing. So fold, that hand cost me a lot so few hand later fairly short stack. He raises button again so a shove with ace 10 for 6000 more. He call with 4 6 and hit 6. So me out pretty standard shov I think but big stack luck always hits.

so what you think? obv its only one hand but is fairly standard for me I think.

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