MTT January mistakes: Post your 3 biggest ones.

[Everlong]

[ QUOTE ]

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

[/ QUOTE ]

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.

[CybrPunk]

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]

[Heaven]

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.

[BadgerPro]

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!

[Chomper4]

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.

[bestcellar]

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








[img]/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img]

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

[Elaboration]

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.

[bruce]

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

[registrar]

[ QUOTE ]
Playing while drinking.



[/ QUOTE ]

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

[danger_mouse]

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).