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Join Date: Apr 2005
Location: SoCal
Posts: 363
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Hi all, this is my first post. I've been lurking for a couple of months now and I just love the site. AOK thank you for this post. I think you hit the nail on the head for me here. I find in MTTs that I'll spend 3 hours accumulating chips and then get impatient/defensive and start contesting pots that I just shouldn't be in. This has happened to me in virtually every MTT that I reach the final 2 tables (I have yet to make a FT in a MTT). I'll be sitting on 20k-50k chips and think I'm the shit so I start worrying that someone's moving in on my blinds so I call and inevitably end up with a drawing hand that doesn't fill up. If only I had the discipline to keep up the kind of play that got me the chips in the first place (thanks to FTR  ) I would probably make the FT.
For example, two nights ago I'm in a 258 player MTT and I'm 7th in chips with 16 players left w/Qc8c on the bb. I get one raiser from MP so I call and it's HU. Flop comes real raggy w/1 club. I figure I'll find out where he's at so I throw out a 1/2 pot bet and he calls. Turn: another raggy club. I bet the pot this time hoping he'll drop. He calls and I'm now left with about 3000 chips with a pot of about 25K. River comes: Xd. Should've check/folded (meat on the bone) but I went ai and he took it down w/Ace high. Picked up my 4 bucks and beat myself up for the play for the next few hours.
This is just one example of about 10 that I have and every time the result is the same (with the exception of the 20K chips I took with 74o on the bb when I flopped 2pr - to go on and bubble out in 27th b/c of my ill-timed aggression).
Side note: as far as calculating the chips I should have to reach the FT I just take the total tourney chips out and divide by 10 to give me the average.
Now, the question: Once it gets down to 10% of the original field, does the skill level of players go up or is it the same fishy AI-on-every-draw players that it starts out with? I play at Royal Vegas in the $1-$3 freezeouts (200-800 players) and I always feel out of my element when I reach the last 20 or so because the tables are shuffled and I assume the players are all sharks. Do I need to switch up my game or just keep playing the same tightish game I was playing? (maybe I should reread rippy's or rada's posts)
Again, thanks for the post and I hope to become a FTRr who actually contributes something very soon. Peace, and thanks for the great site.
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