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  1. gavonater gavonater is offline

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    Feb 9th, 2008 (2/9/2008 9:00am)

    This is my first post here so bare with me!I have being playing online now for over a year ,mostly play sngs.I came here looking to improve my mtt results.I dont get to play that many mtts dew to time restraints but lately i havE being trying to really improve and looking for holes in my game.I go deep quite a bit but have never reached a final table.I do well in the 180 man sngs and have 2 wins,with a sample size of 60 games so far.I understand that the bigger fields are much more higher variance,but after thinking about my results in some mtts i cant help but think im not playing aggressive enough when it comes to stealing when down to the last three tables or so.For instance when i get this far i usually have about an m of 10 in most cases and am about 4th in chips at my table. I know i need to loosen up and get more aggressive but cant quite bring myself to raise every hand or so like i should be doing.example,say i raise in late position purely on a steal with trash like t5 or something against the right opponents of coarse!I get called,flop two pair and win a big pot.My problem is my thought prosses after i know everybody has seen me raise with t5,i seem to hold back a bit to much after this and cant help thinking the next raise i make im goin to get repopped!so lets say i get dealt A6,55,KT,etc.another stealing hand the very next hand,i feel very reluctant to raise again.I end up folding and find no hands or good spots after this and get blinded away and end up having to call with A6,55,KT,etc. the very hands i am afraid to raise with,and then i am forced to call with,for my tournament life before getn blinded out.I feel like im missing to many spots here.Im interesting in knowing if anybody has have similar experiences in situations like this and how they fixed this problem.Also should i play more like a maniac here to get chips?Should i be thinking to hell with it if i get reraised theres 5000K in the pot i want it!Sorry if this is a bit long winded!any comments much appreciated.
     
  2. tmfd001 tmfd001 is offline

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    Feb 9th, 2008 (2/9/2008 9:02am) in reply to gavonater

    hurts eyes...
     
  3. willstarsz willstarsz is offline

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    Feb 9th, 2008 (2/9/2008 11:43am) in reply to gavonater

    An m of 10 at a late stage of a tourny is not bad, you still have room to play hands, and i think that if you were to maintain at least a 10 m stack throughout the late stages of a tourny that you will go deep. I feel that your thought process is not bad, once you show down a trash holding you have to be aware of your image preception. However, if you feel that your opponents will rarely play back at you, then it is safe to continue with some selective thievery with your moderate holdings and position offcourse. When you do get short stacked try not to be the one calling, you should rarely be calling allin, instead look for situations where you have FE.
  4. gavonater gavonater is offline

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    Feb 9th, 2008 (2/9/2008 12:41pm) in reply to willstarsz

    Thanks for reply wills.i know that an m of 10 is not bad but if i have 40,000 and the chip leadr has 200,000k i still have to try to keep accumulating right regardless of being card dead?just wanted to know if i should be stealing alot more and stop wimping out so much cause i am sick of just not quiet getting there and busting out so near the final table.I am only calling with these hands with an m of 3 or so and against a big stack late position raiser who i feel my hand has a good chance against his range

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  5. doubledave22 doubledave22 is offline

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    Feb 9th, 2008 (2/9/2008 12:49pm) in reply to gavonater

    if i get caught with rags but win a huge pot as a result i do not slow down until i am forced to. Make people fear you, keep raising trash force them to have hands to play back at you. If u get played back on one too many times after this then yeah sit back and use ur image to get paid off on a big hand. GL
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    Feb 9th, 2008 (2/9/2008 1:42pm) in reply to doubledave22

    I also have read some articles lately where some of the top mtt players where being described as either maniacs or super tight and they responded by saying ertain situations require u to change gears in atourny.I am well aware of changing gears and guess i need to work on being a maniac in these situations as i have mastered being super tight lol.
     
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