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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.