MTT January mistakes: Post your 3 biggest ones.
 

Post the mistakes you made in January and that hurt your game the most.

Feel free to add ideas about how to improve for next month.


Mine:

1) Not paying attention to my opponents while playing.

2) Not taking the time to study and review important decisions I made in tournaments.

3) Not finding the right schedule to play my tournaments, this is, playing too many at once (for me, too many is more than 3); or playing too many during one day (for me, this is more than 10 in a given day)


Probable solutions:

1) I have had this problem for so long, I don't know what to do, I have an attention problem, my mind can't just be in just one place, maybe some medication will help, but don't know really an easy way to solve this problem.

2) This is an easy one, JUST DO IT.

3) Now that I'm playing full time, I have yet to find my rithm; looks like I play the best when I'm playing at most 2 tourneys at the same time; and probably for me it's not a good idea to play more than 6 in the day. What's the use to play 12 tourneys with a 40% ROI if you can play 5 with a 100% ROI?

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Similar to your post about how you lost the 700k, I also had a meltdown about the same time in the tournament. That has led to #1:

1) Recognize better the table dynamics, and the reads players will have on you. A standard blind steal situation is no longer standard if the blinds think you are a total wacko.

2) It's ok to fold your big blind. It's ok. Sorta deep in the stars 150 chief911 raised my bb from the button and I obviously shoved J8o. I had no real read, just that I always assume the button raiser never has a hand. It may indeed have been a good spot, but if it was it was for the wrong reasons.

3) I need to stop talking on AIM, looking at 2+2, and talking to my roomates while 4 tabling 100+ dollar MTTs. Really.

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1. Not examining Amnon Phillipi before pushing the turn. Who knows if i would have picked something up, but I might have.

2. Folding an overpair on day 1 in an 80k pot when it was the best hand. The mistake stemmed from not leading the turn.

3. In general I pay off the river too much when i am clearly behind.

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Mistakes:

1. I never play more than 3 at once, but I have a tendency, when I get a big stack or get deep in one tourney, to get too flippant about my other 1 or 2 tourneys. I don't think the solution is to play one at a time. Instead, I just need to buckle down in all of my tourneys.

2. I get too loose when my stack size reaches 10 BBs. Although I may, at times, need to go into push or fold mode, I need to stop just pushing the first ace I get and pay more attention to the other players at the table, position with regard to money, escalation of payouts, etc.

3. I should not start any tourney that I am not willing to grind out to the finish. A good example is the 8:15 $3 rebuy on Stars. Around midnight, I tend to get very impatient b/c of the reality that you just don't make much money unless you get to the final table.

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This is an interesting post.

My biggest mistake is not valuing chip and a chair, in negative EV situations (pot odds suck). This has affected my game dramatically and has cost me substantially this month.

My second biggest problem is being too conservative with my bankroll. I limit my upside by playing many satellites that have a low variance return. While I am a consistent winner, I do not put enough money into play to really win substantially. My favorite move is "unregister".

My third biggest problem is organization. I have a ton of information available, and I do not organize it properly for:
Tournament selection
Hand selection
review of mistakes

I can't tell you what I've played in a month. Only that my accounts are up X $.

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funny I actually saw that hand in the 150+12 on stars. It wasn't that bad of a push. Resteals are always nice except when you get caught.

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1.) Refusing to trust my instincts, reads, etc. and paying off on a hand when I am sure I am behind, b/c I make up a range he 'could' have.

2.) Playing the value of my cards too much when playing live. I need to start seeing identifying overly tight post flop players and get into pots with them, regardless of my hand more often, especially with deeper stacks.

Losing my nerve after the flop. I need to fire that 2nd bullet way more often.

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funny I actually saw that hand in the 150+12 on stars. It wasn't that bad of a push. Resteals are always nice except when you get caught.

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Yeah I know, like I said it may indeed have been a good spot. The point is I pushed just because I never beleive a solid player has a hand on the button, not because of any table factors at my disposal. So yeah, if I did pick a good spot, it was sort of by accident.

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1) Calling rather than rasing or folding pf on my Aussie Millions bustout hand ("I can't fold the best hand I've seen all day, but I can't reraise an UTG raiser w/ AJ. Let me just call, what's the worst that can happen?? After all, I have POSITION!"). Making a push on the flop that no better hand would call b/c I felt sure that the UTG player didn't have an A, while not really considering the third player in the hand.

2) Playing too much. Although it didn't hurt my game really, I didn't have much to do last week and never got called in for work, and that led to putting in a ton of hours at the virtual tables, which can't be too healthy.

3) Not playing any limit hold'em cash games. They are profitable, helpful to my overall game and how I built my roll to begin with, I gave them up almost entirely in the last couple of months of '05 and told myself I would go back to them in the new year, but I still haven't gotten on that.

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1) reraising a tight player with about 30% of the field left in the $2k event at Tunica with AJ. He raised from the cutoff so for some reason I'm thinking he is weak. I really didn't take enough time to think about the situation. He was a middle aged man who probably didnt change his opening standards from utg to the cutoff. I'm an idiot. I put him all in, he thinks for like 5 minutes and calls with AQ. That puts me a bit under avg and I can't recover.

Live vs online is just so different. I am a total LAG live, at least I was in Tunica, I was raising J6s utg and all kinds of crap. How weak/tight the players are baffle me.

solution: take my time. THINK! I do everything super fast. I eat unreal fast, I'm the fastest golfer anyone has ever seen(10 handicap btw), and I like to play live poker fast too.

I made other mistakes sure, but nothing to write about. well actually

2)Got upset about 2 horrid beats late in the Stars $109r. I went out drinking, came back played 30/60, lost $3200 which led to my worst day EVER.

solution:Don't play after I go out drinking after steaming, at least twice as high as I typically play.

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1. Not trusting my reads

2. Not giving opponents credit for a decent hand

3. Not being patient enough when i get around 5-15BB. I force my action too often. I actually took the time in last nights 10r to make sure I avoided this and I made it a lot farther than I normally would have. Hopefully I can continue to make better decisions.

3.5. Not being observant (i.e. playing 5 mtts, browsing 2+2, playing backgammon, talking on IM, and attending to the baby at the same time)

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1. Overplaying AQ like a donkey in the $500 NL tourney I played at the Gold Strike in Tunica during the World Poker Open. It was fairly early, I had lost about half my starting stack making a couple of tough (but correct) laydowns. Guy min-raises in EP, I decide he's weak and make an overbet all-in push. He has KK, IGHN.
2. Playing too many NLHE tournaments and not enough of the goofy PL Draw events at B2B (that I'm good at) or limit tournaments (which I'm generally better at).
3. Playing too many cheap MTTs in general. I should play fewer MTTs and more SNGs.

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1. Trying to steal blinds too much. While in the midst of a big cashless streak I was reviewing my PokerTracker stats and discovered I was trying to steal the blinds over 45% of the time. Much more than I think is wise and much more than the 33% average I had over the previous three months. Leak found and plugged.

2. Not making the big laydown. I continue to cost myself ITMs and FTs by falling in love with hands that look big but are not near the nuts and not folding when I'm beating very few hands the raiser could have.

3. Weak big stack play. Too often when I get a big stack I blow it. When I get a big stack I start playing some hands I shouldn't, thinking I have the cushion to LAG it up a bit. I forget about the guideline to stay away from other big stacks and attack the middle stacks. I get caught up in the rush that got me the big stack and think I'm unbeatable. I generally abbandon the TAG play that got me the big stack in the first place.

Solutions:

1. This one is solved already. But the lesson is too continue to use the available tools to analyze my game and plug leaks.

2. Take the time to think. Figure out which hands the villain could have and what your chances are against them compared to the pot odds. Do the hand category analysis HOH and Gordon't LGB talk about. Don't get defeatist, a fold is not the end of the world. Recongnize that even if a fold leaves me with only 8BB, that I know I'm a good small stack player and that I can come back.

3. Play some NL cash games. When I've done this I know I've improved my big stack thinking. Stay within my game, I'm a TAG not a LAG. Despite spending the whole tournament watching bigger stacks LAG it up, don't automatically join the fun yourself.

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Problems
1) talking to the girlfriend while i play. Oh man is this bad news.
2) not paying attention to my table.
3) not having a routine. - will explain more in solution -

Solutions
1) talking with the girlfriend makes me pay 0 attention to my tables, and i play like complete trash. Next time, i either postpone the conversation, or i get someone to play for me while i talk.

2)Just using pokertracker/HUD will fix this, and believe it or not, i've been too lazy to just open the programs. Gonna be good about it now.

3) No more waking up at 4:30pm and going straight to the computer. I gotta start waking up at a normal time, and getting a normal startt to my day. Eating breakfast, maybe take a walk, and then starrt playing. I'm so much more succesful on the days i do this. and 1000000x happier.

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Just wrote one in your other thread:

1) Winning a seat in the satellite for the UB Sunday nighter, and then not being fully committed to playing strong and hard, due to time zone differences and work commitments.

Solution:
Don't play unless you are 100% committed to play, mind body and soul.

Conclusion:
More than anything, MTTs are about commitment to the tourney itself, but also to one's commitment to oneself. If you ain't committed, then don't do it.

Here are two more:

2) Forgetting what I was doing against totally new competition. Played in a UB satellite for the upcoming pro tourney at the Aviation Club in Paris. Only one seat was available. So no guarantees, but I was in mid pack with 11 left until I lost concentration and screwed up. I was the lone Yank in a mini-tournament of all French players.

All of the players with one exception, played BY THE BOOK!! If you had read most of the current poker literature and recognized that they were playing in those published styles, then the adjustments were easy.

Solution:
I recognized this early on and adjusted accordingly with good results. Late in the tourney when the chip leader started to pull away a bit, I started to get a bit more aggressive. This was the wrong move, because aggressive play will not push off predictable players when they are on a hand. I played really solid for about 150 hands, but lost sight of this fact on 1 hand, and it cost me a shot at the one seat that was available.

Conclusion: If it ain't broke, don't fix it.

3) Not folding top pair to an obvious flush draw that hits. It was so obvious, someone would have had to hit me upside the head to make it more obvious. But I called anyway and paid the price.

Solution:
Use good judgment to reach a decision. Trust your judgment and decision.

Conclusion: Work hard to develop your instincts and thought processes so that you can rely on them without question in crunch time.

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I had points where I did something stupid - I'd write it on an index card near my desk and I taped it to the front of the desk so I see it -

1. - No more A/rag when I'm still functional (10-20BB) - it is always dominated when I play it out of position and I'm never safe when I hit the flop - it's great for stealing blinds and 3-4xBB, but it's stop being my all-in semibluff

2. - overbetting and not letting my opponents bluff enough - I'm always aggro when I play right now - always betting or folding, not trapping or slowplaying, and it's costing me chip equity - when I get repopped to 100 when I have AA, my first instinct is to push, and maybe a smaller reraise will get a call heads up which will probably not be dangerous for me -

and for some reason, I thought when I made a monster (like a set) I should play it the same way - aggressive and almost overbetting lately.

I now vary my play with the monsters - check the turn or river if I think I'm gonna bet a bluff thrown at me - might as well - it'll probably be more then I'd bet anyways - that's as much as the guy wants to risk - well, I'll usually min-raise his bluff [img]/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img] - basically, I need to play in such a way as to induce bets into my monster, and I was trying to disguise my play, but if I do this only occasionally, I AM disguising it - so that's ok too - I tend to play AK the same way if I missed both the flop and got a free turn card [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

my previous mentality is I gotta play this aggressive and not give a tell in my betting patterns whether I missed or hit - and I'm doing that, but occasionally checking the misses and the monsters is nice variance too -

truth is, I'm scared to death of getting sucked out on and I need to overcome that to risk winning more chips -

3. - multitabling $20 SNGS - I had a point where I played 4 in a row and got 3 2nd's - that's unacceptable - I should have gotten at least one win and probably 2 - and because they were all started at the same time, I couldn't focus enough on one player - I can get away with it at the $10 level, but they're tougher HU at the $20 - and that's where I have to be the best -

so no more multitabling 4 SNG's unless they're $15 or less [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]

RB

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1. - No more A/rag when I'm still functional (10-20BB) - it is always dominated when I play it out of position and I'm never safe when I hit the flop


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Amen my brotha!!

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Great thread,

#1.) Not being attentive enough to my table.. Though I'd probably be a nervous wreck playing a live tourney, I know with almost certainty that i'd be a better player for the fact that there is nothing else to do at the table other then pay attention.. I'm at my computer, playing a tourney, going upstairs to get something to eat, posting on 2+2, talking on msn, browsing sports scores, etc etc..

#2.) Not paying attention to ICM and pay levels at FT's.. I have that 'play to win' mentality.. but sometimes I make absurd moves to steal a blind while I should just be playing a little more cautiously until the shorties get knocked out .. twice I was at a final table with really short stacks and I still forced the action and got knocked out.. I could have probably made an extra 1K this month by being a lil more patient.

#3.) Playing tired. Right now I'm at school, and usually play when I get home.. i think playing tired or with other things on my mind really hinder on my game, i'm just not all there mentally/physically and my mind wanders. Should probably reserve tournaments for the weekend and off-days to endure the long sessions and feel fresher.

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1) Taking it personally when one player takes a couple pots in a row from me.

2) Taking it personally when one player consistently reraises me.

3) well, those are the two big ones. They're big enough for work on.

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Problems
1. Getting Bored
2. Make too many "plays"
3. Getting frustrated, (playing too much or too little or not playing my best)

Solutions
1. I need to keep up a steady flow of SnGs or HU SnGs or cash games to keep my mind occupied and make more money.
2. I sometimes make plays when I really don't need to and It is very risky with little reward. I think playing more tables will also help with this problem. I also want to make more plays based off reads which I don't do as well anymore because I am lazy/bored now.
3. To stop from getting frustrated I will play more SnG and cash games to keep a more steady cash flow to help deal with the emotional varience of MTTs.

I had a really bad month and I need to start making changes.

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What's the use to play 12 tourneys with a 40% ROI if you can play 5 with a 100% ROI?

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If they all had the same buyin (a bad assumption, I know), I'm reasonably sure that the variance would be lower. If this isn't that big a deal to you, and you save some time that you're happy to use in other ways, then I agree that it's probably a good adjustment.

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I fond I was playing too passively in January. I was attempting to correct some of my super-LAGginess and as a result wasn't gambling enough.
As a result I was having a Hellmuthian experience: I was frequently getting all in with the best hand and getting outdrawn. It took me a while to remember that winning tournaments often involves getting in with the worst hand.

This left me often frustrated and not in my best mindset for playing poker.

I also found I became remarkably loose-passive with a deep stack. When I have 15-20k in the 2nd hour of an 11r and the blinds are 75-150, the small pots don't seem to mean as much, and I would limp more speculative hands and just give up if I didn't hit big. Just cranking up the aggression a little on those hands built bigger pots when I hit and allowed me to pick them up more when I didn't.

And the aggression is back: PT has my stats from today's 25k at 34/24. Even discounting the rebuy hour that's pretty damn LAGgy.

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Great idea for a thread.

Suggestion for the 'not paying attention' one...at least for those who are playing online. FORCE yourself to take notes on what opponents do on hands. Even if most of it is useless stuff like 'open raised 4bb with AJs utg+2'. If you're doing this it will make you pay enough attention to notice some of the interesting/useful stuff too.

My top 3:
1. Winning money on games I enjoy and am relatively good at (micro buy-in MTTs) and then losing it at games I don't enjoy and am bad at (turbo STTs, ring games).
2. Playing (and playing badly) when I'm not really in the mood.
3. Not trying to put opponents on a specific range. This is partly a function of the random hands a lot of people play in $1 MTTs, but once I know someone is either tight or a thinking player, there's no excuse for not going to the 'trouble' of thinking about their specific range on a hand.

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Just looking through everyone else's responses has helped me identity a couple things that I might not even have been aware of myself. Good idea for a thread. I guess for January, 3 ongoing mistakes I made which I'll have to change are:

1) Starting up too many tournies when I'm really not geared to go all out. When I get a couple bad beats and lose the ones I'm currently playing, I'll too often fire up some more only to find out after a few minutes that I really don't want to be playing in a bad mood for a few hours and I just donk my chips away.

2: At some point, I feel like there's just some pot that I have to win or some hand that I have to pull a fancy move with--always my last hand. Patience! Play solid poker!

3: Spending too much on satellites. I like to play the occassional satellite into a Sunday tournament or two but this month I got carried away, forcing myself to get a seat every week even if it ended up costing more than the seat is worth. From now on, I'll have to just play one once in awhile and not force anything.

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1. Playing for playing sake
2. Watching a film at the same time. Failing to follow what is going on in the poker game and failing to follow what is going on in the film too.
3. Finding it hard to motivate myself due to a big win when playing for smaller prize

Solutions

1. Don't play unless I feel I want to rather than to just kill time.
2. Listen to the radio instead. I get my best results then as I can watch and listen and don't get bored.
3. Be more realistic about my expectations.

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1. Not organizing my play into a cohesive strategy.
2. Not adjusting to stack sizes.
3. Playing too aggro, playing too weak (usually against the same player).

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1. Realise that a long constructed table image is
meaningless to a player just moved to your table.
2. Playing the maniac at FT's
3. Playing too passively at bubble time.

1. I've done this on several occasions at live games especially, know I have a certain image at the table and make my move accordingly, paying little heed to the latest arrival with a calling stack. Solution, PAY ATTENTION.

2. I sometimes forget that a whole new image has to be created at FT's cos at least 1/2 the players weren't at my table for the last x hours if at all. I just think everyone automatically wants to climb a place at a time and I have gone nuts before. Only works if FT made up of this mindset.
Solution - PAY ATTENTION.

3. I love playing so much I hate it when I get knocked out, not just the obvious reason that I don't money or don't lift as much as the next guy out but because, generally in live games, I have to stop playing - hateful [img]/images/graemlins/mad.gif[/img]

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-Blowing most of my pokerstars br in limit holdem which I've never played prior to this month.
-Blowing the rest in the 200$ turbo sng's.
-Not playing enough MTT's, where I'm still a reasonable winner.

I made a decent comeback after going "broke" for the first time in my "career" (both are pretty relevant terms, i'm still an overall winner). I made up about half of what I lost this month, but i'm still heavily down. School is a real problem, since I don't have the time to play MTT's. Hopefully the next couple of weeks I'll have more free time and focus on my tournament play.

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Miscues:
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1. Playing my LAG cash game in the early stages of the tournament . . . not adjusting for tournament play.

2. Over-analyzing every mistake, action, and anything poker related . . . burning my self out thinking poker 24/7

3. Not paying keen attention to opponents, and getting distracted by outside sources. IE: browsing the forum.

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Remedy:

1. Play more straightforward early on, levels 1-3, an ABC approach until I have a lock on my opponents.

2. Understand that luck has a fundamental outcome of many situations, and if you're a winning player, you're not always playing poor poker.

3. Realize I have to devote 3+ hours to a tournament, and that I can surf for porn, 2+2, and what have you any other time of the day. Nothin is more important than poker is, when you're playing poker.

----Read and re-read Heaven's guide on notes, and apply them. At least pay close attention.

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1. Not betting enough for value/undervaluing tptk in early stages. It's easy to forget that the reason you have a chance to beat a large field is because many in that field will limp in or raise with KQ, then call a reraise, then call your AQ all the way down. Ditto, ace rag. By the turn, you're thinking 'he's gotta have two pair' and ease off the betting when the extra chips I could have won there would be very helpful later.

2. Conversely, putting players on a hand that you assume you can knock them off. For example, weak loose UTG limps, you raise 4x from button with 88. An ace flops. Donk makes a weak raise, you reraise, he calls. Conclusion: he's got an ace, he doesn't like his kicker. Chip-saving conclusion: it doesn't matter how much you have repped a stronegr ace pre-flop, post-flop, turn and river, he's not going to let that A2o go and you're going to look pretty silly turning over 88. (This was my worst hand in Janaury).

3. Not committing to each tournie I play. When I switched from mainly cash to mainly MTTs six months ago, my initial results were great, four first places and a second in my first 10 MTTs. This was partly a rush, partly luck, partly intuition and part solid ring game poker. But, I think, the main thing was the respect I gave the games. I assumed that to beat 300 other players, I needed to be fully focussed at all times for the whole thing. Then I read HoH my play became a lot more sloppy as I thought more about M etc. and less about just winning each hand, or getting out when behind.

My solutions are:

1. Play cash again. It's doing my BR great good and I have missed it, after the many hours of hanging around, doing nothing, in MTTs. I'm hoping this will improve my general MTT game.

2. Play many fewer MTTs but for higher stakes. I think this makes the opponents easier to read and you feel better going out when outplayed and you've learned something rather than busting out because you've made reasonable assumptions about terrible players. Also, I'm pretty confident that I will play much better in a £50 buy-in and am likley to do a lot better in that thajn I will in five £10 buy-ins. It takes less time, is more exciting etc. etc.

I've also taken up drinking (in moderation) while playing again. Christ, you may as well enjoy it!

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I've also taken up drinking (in moderation) while playing again. Christ, you may as well enjoy it!

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Amen!

Mine:

1. Donating away any MTT winnings at Omaha 8 cash tables...
2. As everyone else - playing when not focused enough
3. Not being confident enough to trust my gut and lay down that overpair or whatever nicelooking but loosing hand I have in the hole.

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1. Not paying enough attention. I made the 3r FT once this month and got too involved with conversations on AIM. I missed a reraise from an opponent, pushed over top of his reraise and ran AQ into AA to bust 8th when I should have made top 3 at least. All from not paying attention. There have been other similar issues but I'll never forget this one.

2. Not settting a good schedule. I played a bit sporadically in the month of January and didn't create enough of a regiment for me to play regularly.

3. Not reviewing tournament hand histories often enough. I have HH files of my own, as well as others, that went unnoticed and unloved for way too long. Since having issues with my PC and Pokertracker I need to make time that I can format/reinstall everything on my PC. As much as I hate it I need to spend that day working on it. Multitabling without PT and PAHud makes me [img]/images/graemlins/confused.gif[/img]

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1. Learning how to master AQ. I honestly cant remember how many times my AQ get busted by AK...

2. Playing to many tournaments that I am not motivated to win since its not much cash involved... Baaad...

3. I play to little.

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Ok I didn't play enough tournaments to figure out my 'serious' mistakes so I'm just gonna have fun with it.

Mistakes:

1) Rocking my cash games.

2) Getting sick for a week.

3) Not winning enough coinflips.


Solutions:

1) This is "MTT" January mistakes so while rocking cash games might not be a bad thing it took away from my MTT play. So I need to continue to rock the cash games but make some more time for my beloved MTTs.

2) I got sick for a week and was too stubborn to go to the doctor's right away which is probably why I was sick for a whole week and not just 2 or 3 days. My solution is to just not get sick any more since I think getting sick and not playing is major -EV.

3) I would like to improve my average on coinflips from 50% to about 75%. I'm still working on some complex math equations to figure this one out. I'm not sure but maybe working on my rock-paper-sissors techniques might pay some dividends here??? Definietly a major focus point for Feburary though!

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1) Become overconfident after huge months of November and December for me. Assuming I could cash in multis easily.

2) Multi-tabling too many tournies at once led me to miss out on some ample opportunities to place higher than I did in tournies. I should of stuck to what won me so much money in multis the previous 2 months.

3) Not reviewing and correcting my mistakes so that I don't make them over and over again.

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1) Not making enough money
2) Not placing high enough in tournaments I don't win
3) Not winning enough hands








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ok seriously...
1) playing a cash game at all. UGH. If I stick to MTTs, my bankroll stays extremely healthy.
2) restealing with questionable hands too much
3) playing tighter with a huge stack in a non-rebuy event

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1. Trying to run bluffs, or stealing pots from the wrong people without evidence that it will work just because it should be a "good spot" for that type of move.

This stems from not watching the players at my table enough.

2. I'm really poor at adjusting to table changes. I'm either too tight, or I seem to spew chips.

3. Impatient short stack play.

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Here's my 3 biggest leaks:

1) Playing while drinking.

2) Raising with Ace rag in early position too frequently.

3) Not knowing when not to make a cbet

4) I'll add two more, not factoring enough that a cold caller of me raising may have a big pocket pair.

5) Not slowplaying enough

Bruce

Re: MTT January mistakes: Post your 3 biggest ones.
 

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Playing while drinking.



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That's terrible! You've got to sort that out. Try drinking while playing. [img]/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img]

Re: MTT January mistakes: Post your 3 biggest ones.
 

1. In live play, I need to remember that just because a player gives off that his hand is weak, doesn't mean he'll fold it. It doesn't matter how tight my table image image; some folks just won't let go.

2. I need to get better at making tough calls.

3. I need to play a little deeper into hands to eek out more profit (i.e. get past the freaking flop more often and still win).