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lukybugur:
--- Quote from: THEGUY84 on September 06, 2009, 17:48:24 PM ---
Yeah switched to the sngs from.DS I guess they can work the same but at least I can always make a gain from getting 2nd place. As I do get heads up a lot!
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I"m considering this too for short term gain given that I"m really struggling to close out the seats in the $11 DSs. Plenty FTs recently but winning a 9 man SnG I seem to find v difficult.
THEGUY84:
My stats are a bit over the place at the start before I found my feet, jumped between 6 and 10 seat tables and turbo and standard and $6 and $10 . I didnt start great but my best results seem to be in the 6 max slow structure, with more play!!
So stats look like the fallowing for all the games mentioned above:
Played 28
Profit: $80
ROI: 120
I have cashed in 6 straight, 6 max. I hope it continues and I will update on states for all my standard 6max when I get a better sample.
For 6 max slow structure I have played 10:
Cashed in 8, 4 First place and 4 second place finishes.
so hopefully found my game and can keep jumping up the levels when targets are reached.
Yeah Ds can be tough on the old confidence but can be great if ur running good or playing goood
THEGUY84:
Well I have not posted much in a while. I have still been playing plenty of poker a mix between cash games and tournament poker. Me and the latter have not been getting on recently at all I dont remember the last time I made a segnificant cash online, some small ones but nothing great I just can seem to get anything going! Im really not sure what to do, as I am doing pretty well in the cash games online. I dont know whether my cash game play in affecting how I play tourney poker. I tend to play 6max cash games and I am a total calling station on them, if the hand doesnt make sence I just about always call, Big donk bets! As people in these small stake games tend to make really bad bets when bluffing. Dont get me wrong I am sometime wrong, but in the long run I have found it to be very profitable!!
I dont know if this "Station" syndrome is affecting my tourney play or it it impatience or just good old varience. I feel like at cant win when im infront or when im behind at the moment. It may be my increase lack of patencie recently which seems ot happen more when i run bad. I dont know what your throughts are but when I playing tourneys I feel myself getting involved in pots when I shouldnt to keep my chips stack going up, when I shouldnt be. Is it better to play these marginal spots or to wait for the big hands and just try double through and keep out of trouble. I dont know if i focuse too much on being above the chip average when im playing. I hvae played some of the deep stack toruneys on stars which allow for more play, these do seem to work better for me, but dam they are a long haul to win like $30 after 7hrs and coming 50th out of 2000 runners.
I think I might give tourneys a wee break for a while but we will see. Played a bit more live poker recently 1st event played my best poker in ages but ran like stink! and 2nd tourny card dead, oh and when I got a big hand I had jj on a 9 high board and folded to a shove on flop, they show kk and another hand I fold 1010 on 5 high on the flop opponet shows jj, so good folds but criples the stack big time. P.S Im not usually big for folding these spots but they where the tightest players ever. I beat nothing! lol
I try post a bit more if my luck turns around, might invent in say 1 big tourney per month with a deep structure and big playout insead of playin lots of smaller ones!
Kenny
AJDUK:
Keep it up Kenny - don"t despair. You"re clever enough to work out what"s variance and what isn"t, and react accordingly. Perhaps, as you say, your tourney play is suffering from your profitable cash game style. Perhaps you"re just suffering -ve variance in your tourneys or even perhaps you"re benefitting from +ve variance in your cash game? Probably not the latter. Whichever it is you know it"s difficult to be great at both tourney and cash.
Always good to constantly analyse your game - you can only get better as a result. Good luck.
MintTrav:
--- Quote from: THEGUY84 on December 03, 2009, 12:00:59 PM ---
I dont know what your throughts are but when I playing tourneys I feel myself getting involved in pots when I shouldnt to keep my chips stack going up, when I shouldnt be. Is it better to play these marginal spots or to wait for the big hands and just try double through and keep out of trouble. I dont know if i focuse too much on being above the chip average when im playing.
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Well, you know the arguments for trying to build your stack continually or waiting for the big hands but either way, seeing as you ask, imo the concept of chip average is pretty irrelevant and focusing on this is gonna get you into trouble.
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