[DerrtySlime]

I am Adam Kozak.
When i was writing this article about tournaments, i began trying to evaluate when I did the best in tournaments and what i did. I noticed that the times I went deep is when i did not play textbook, super tight style. I noticed that When i played 18-25% of pots I put myself into many more situations where the cards didn't matter and i could pretty much lean on these tight guys who would stare at their cards and make a decision. Often times, weak players enter the pot with a raise, or some limp and i would have position, look down and find like Js 4c or some garbage and fold. But then i started to raise to isolate these tight weak players who will only continue with top pair and i found out that you MUST do these things throughout the tournamewnt if you're going to put yourself in a good spot to win the tournament . This was what i was tyring top convery in my article, you MUST pick up chips once in a while when you have no cards to play with. Playing my cards was getting me NO-WHERE. Not even survival because my definition of survival is surviving until the last player. I tried my best to focus on good situatoins where i was playing IN POSITION against abc type players ,regaredless of my cards and looking for spots where they continually act weak. This was what i was trying to get through in my article because it happens so much in MTT's. Just remember that tight players only want to go broke with really good hands so if you can continue to force them to either go all the way or avoid the possibility of pain and fold, they will fold way more times than they put it on the line. People in life or on the poker table will act much more in ways that avoid pain than a chance to experience pleasure.

Also, in regards to players saying that there are times you should slide into the money, this is very rare. In certain types of tournaments for example Focault's example of the ME, yes you should slide in if you can and THEN gamble. But in pretty much every tourney online this is not the case. Often a double up when you're the short stack can be huge because then you have open push fold equity. Or you double up from a short stack and you have RE raise fold equity. By doublng up, you increase your chance of winning chips preflop, which in a situation of the bubble, good/decent open push chances will come up frequently. hope some of you got something of out of it ,later.