I feel that I am not inspired at all today, so this post may be somewhat indigestible ... Yet like every time I make a nice perf, I want to tell you. So what's new since I left you last Thursday?
- The live, without much success
- A decrease in CG
regime - a sort of internal revolution in terms MTT
- My first TF 2011 with a 2nd place on a 50 € last night
Live From unsuccessfully
So I played 2 tournaments live as planned:
- A satellite for SuperSat Lyon. It was never my fourth attempt, and like the others it was a failure. Card dead again, and structures as fast, it is hard to get by without cards. Classic pattern: You do not get chips, the blinds increase, there remains a reason to flight or two a round without ever reaching double, and you end up out on the flight too.
- A fun casino tournament, 260 players for a buy-in of 240 €. I am a very nice tournament, but lost a shot that would have pretty horrible orbit (a move that is played on the flop when I was at 94.5% favorite - my opponent has no outs with his two undercards but it gets a wonderful runner runner flush). So, it is once more an end of tournament mode shortsack. The table being super passive, I'm doing pretty well, including the passage of the bubble, but I'll end up being paid on my 257th carpet by a pair of QQ that will face my A10. Where how to play nearly 14 hours to earn barely enough to pay for gas, lol.
A helping less well in CG
My "cure" has gone through extreme nitification. I got to play until September 19/14 when I turned to 28/20. It was essential for me to go through this phase I also recommend to anyone going through a difficult period in CG. Everything is so much easier with a drastic selection PF ... Similarly, I went through a phase where I played my cards more than flop (the famous game abc). I do floats over, I was bluffing more, I really tried to put myself the head of my opponent to outplay regardless of the cards and the board, I do callais almost never on the river without a strong hand, even when my instincts tell me that blew the other was bluffing. In short, I played for 1 ½ months with a quasi-military discipline.
It is clear that this is sufficient to be a winner NL50 or NL100. But my ambition to play higher, and it seems obvious that such a game has no chance of escape NL200 players to face, even. Fr ... So I decided to start my game to reopen, both PF and flop. I raise to new speculative hands in early position. I more afraid of fighting a bluff to an end (hence my barrel cellar) if I feel weak and think he can go, I make the call heroes who were completely out of my range (a nod to the commentator previous story). So, I make more mistakes and it happens again quite often spew a cellar on a bad play or a bluff failure, which does me almost happened since mid-November.
short, I must find my way in a game again a little more loose-aggressive, while taking care not to fall through in my 3 months ago. For now it means, but nothing serious ... I am the same level of earnings last Thursday, I just played 4000 hands anymore, so inevitably, my winrate the month fell to 10.5 in 9500 BB/100 hands.
My inner revolution
I do not think being able to explain it well today, I probably will return one day ... Sometimes I wonder something. So that I can play thousands of MTT for over 5 years, following a technical progression actually quite smooth and not very fast, especially on the last 2-3 years, I feel like I live for the week last a revolution in my head.
I started thinking as never in my game, and to realize the huge mistakes that I have always been reproduced and which explain a lot I think my lack of performance by MTT associated with my rates GTI (too) high. We'll see, but I feel that what upsets me in this moment, if I get out the decline at the table could change dramatically given in terms of frequency of notable performances.
Without going into details now (it is too early because everything is not clear to me), everything revolves around risk taking. My poor performance of small winning player are due to a clear conclusion: I am a great player too cautious. Yet until now, I did not realize:
- It's been a long time that I realized that the places ITM does not count, and I am NEVER scared money, even on my biggest tournaments buy-in. Not one to let me die in the bubble ...
- Never one to let me either eaten by the blinds. I have built years of absolute necessity as we push a little PA and I am always one of the busiest in my table when my carpet Reaches 10-12 blinds.
- Although not one to let me down easily by 20 to 10 armored so it's been a long time since I joined the importance of abusing resteal as our stack allows.
So what?
Well, all the rest! That's all my game in areas of greater than 25 armored carpet is really bad:
- The start of the tournament. ABC out of the game. Let a free card, be more tricky, Induce the bluff and do not be afraid to call through. More bluffing myself (not having fear of barrel trusting my read). For example, a common mistake that I dutifully reproduces all these years: check with TP turn for pot control, call the turn bet and I deflate when the call river bet. In short, it all boils in one sentence: Be prepared to lose a quarter or half of his stack until we can afford to take risks to assemble the chip.
- later onset ante. Be more active in EP / MP as we are over 20-25 blinds (and the majority of players are behind us, too). Ah, so, for what is to fly into position, I have always been there, I am a compulsive thief cut-off or button. Super! But why have refused for years to revive or QJ Ax in MP if the table is passive enough that it is beneficial that you feel comfortable playing flop, and that our stack we can lose 2.5 armored without pain?
- Do not be afraid to pay a carpet of shortstack with a marginal hand in front of the ranks of ugly if our stack allows. I've always stolen, that's fine. Same for the resteal, great! But when it comes to playing without Fold Equity, I am a fieet. There's nobody! Yet if I have 40 blinds, I put myself in the head of the button that shove her 6 blinds, and waiting for that spot to push almost "any 2, does it not become clear call with A4? Bah if ... Must make chips, and switch from 40 to 34 blinds do not change much about our situation ... How many opportunities do I have left and go over all these years?
- Induce resteal. Another big mistake that struck me is my tendency to avoid confrontations. Typical, I'm on the button with a decent hand, without more, say A10. The blinds were respectively 12 and 15 blinds, I for my part 45. My move here was to systematically carpet. What a mistake! How many opportunities to see them do what they want to die, shove their little ace, was I deprived?
short, you understand. The revelation that struck me is that I was a player who refused to involve third or less of his stack in situations EV +, although marginal, and I'm pretty convinced that this change propel me to the top spots in the tournament much more often now ...
And the funny thing is that I do not really know what triggered this whole awareness. Finally, if I know the spark was reading a banal discussion forum hand. But why now?
First TF
year I put all this under my evening last night for MTT. The first observation is that it's very nice to play looser and smarter too ... The result was very good too, even if it is willing to say anything. and that only time will tell whether I am really able to raise my level of play I played 6 tournaments (including a turbo sat for a big tournament where I chat my ticket). The 5 'real' MTT, I bust earlier in the tournament on 3 of them and make a nice deep run the other 2.
I've probably been a little too extreme for my new state of mind in the first by agreeing to play a huge coin flip for half my stack (wtf, what an idea!) I have a stack of 39K with blinds 300/600 A10X when I get to the button and open raise. And there, a player who just arrived in SB I shove his 18K. Neither one nor two, now I'm more afraid of playing when I have chips. I see myself rather quite opposite to its range, if I lose I still above the average, away you go, so gamblons 30 armored ... Yes, there is carted anyway, that's all me, this: A week ago I would fold to a raise of 16 armored and there I pay double. In short his pair of 77 deprives me maybe a better result than this new GTI interest free.
However, no crucial mistakes on the 50 € I'll end up taking 2nd place. € 1,712 gain, having played a game very pleasant: I agreed to try to get out of shorts with as little as Q8s or A4, play many flips for less than a third of my stack by paying 3bet with hands like AJ or 44, I did not tremble at 4-bet shove with AQ chip leader ... Which foot no longer be a lock! ...
No MTT tonight or tomorrow with other projects, strongly Friday night!
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