Im feeling it, just a few steps away
Im just assessing my game here and said hey why not make a post
I have this feeling that my game is improved somewhat and this isnt some brag post and I may be wrong but i just wanted to bring up some facts that have changed and I owe a lot of this to forum folks.
When I was first playing MTTs, unless I just got the right cards all the way, I was hitting a brick wall always at the same time, like 1-15 places out of the money. Just really a survival player unless you gave me great card. But at the time some of these great cards really werent great cards. they were just cards that made my game harder, AJ - KQ - KJ (hands that look like winners but are just troublemakers) I play them now but understand a little better the risk
Then suddenly I change up my play a little, and I start building stacks, I have enough chips to make people think before they bet into me. But I dont quite understand the power I actually have here and with dumb betting and questionable hand selection, I find myself hitting this wall but Im getting ITM more but not far into the money, basically get my buy in back. You all remember some of my earlier dumb post, where Id question risking 200 of my chips regardless of my chip size and yall keep beating it into my head, youre betting sucks. Also I refused to take any risks at all, and Id let myself get way too low in chips before I understood that I gotta have some chips If I want to show any power at all
We move on and now I start listening a little more and start risking more of my stack, and if my hand is good, Im not letting people scare me or push me around (well at least not as much as it used to be) If I had a 12K stack, my play of months ago with think a 200 chip bet was pressure, Now I realize that If you want to play, I want to be the one to make youre decison hard and dont mind putting 4k in a bet. (NOW A FEW MONTHS AGO THAT WAS UNHEARD OF BY ME) but also just keeping things ultra tight maybe too tight and never taking any chances but the results are getting better, now Im cracking into the top 20 or higher in MTTS. So Im maybe making $1 profit now or whatever.
Which takes us to today. Im added all these pieces and find that If I keep to this plan of everythign I learned but now just add on little twist, take chances and you can be a bully at the table sometimes but not everytime ( a few people really have taken some time to help me tweak my game), Im finding that my game is right at that place where Im seeing more and more final tables (this includes LIVE PLAY also), NOw remember Im all low buy in so its never much money and I feel I want to start playing a little higher buy ins. But Im also at this place where Im taking those riskier bets that I feel you have to make if youre going to give yourself a chance to win. Just tweak here and there and trust me I GOT A LOT MORE TO GET right but all this said I feel my game is right at that point, that Im finally going to take something nice down.
I know I gotta get my aggression in check, I know I gotta get my hand selection and know what plans I have in case the board doesnt agree with my hand selection, I know I should be attacking the weak while they are weak so they dont cause me troubles later and understand that to the bigger stacks I am the weaker, and a million other things Im forgetting. I do know I used to be scared to get involved in hands with a lot of you forum folks (cause I know yall are good and it intimidated me) but now sometimes I find myself sitting at the screen hoping someone is going to play which all Im saying is my confidence had built, If i drop I few grand in chip I understand the game aint over. and If I can actually pull a sweet play on someone, I know it was worthy cause of the level of play of forum people (and yall, we all belong to most of the same forums)
Still got miles and miles to go, and I dont play as much as I should. But Im getting to a point where either Im going to be a contender in this game or I aint going to just stall and try to survive if Im loooking at 50th place, SOme games are meant to be and some there is no sense just banging your head up against a wall that is going nowhere.
Well Im just taking a reassessment of how my game used to be (when I first joined up with forums) and to where my play is now. Cause I always ask myself am I getting better or worse, and I lay out my play today compared to this time last year.
I just feel that If I play like I am and those few hands that are risky start going my way, Im going to start hitting these final tables with big stacks and not mediocre ones and lets not forget I really need to start reassassing my final table cause IM LOST at the final table mainly cause Im hitting final tables with middle high stacks and Im not sure what my job here is (I know to win but..)
OK hope everyone enjoyed my journey to the final tables
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