Really starting to examine my game.
Boosted the bankroll by 10% in one day alone winning 3 tournaments, lost some of that back today though playing bad later.
Bubble in 4 more, a couple I played bad in and a couple I had some bad beats. Am really working on my strategy in terms of stealing and maintaining or growing the stack but am still making about one mistake a tournament and some of them are really costly.
Played much better in a lot of the tournaments and came into the final tables in much better chip position in a lot of them. Coasted to a ticket in an Omaha game on a final table and only had to play one hand I was so chipped up. I’m finding you have to play a lot less hands in Omaha than in Hold’em because the pots are so big, something to really think about going forward.
Didn’t do nearly as well as I wanted to in the daily dollar, too impatient early and got chipped down too much chasing draws, needed to consult notes and remember that I don’t need to have a big stack going till after the first break, let the chips come to you.
If you don’t already do it, take notes when you are playing on a piece of paper for things like:
-Chip position relative to the field.
-Key hands, both good and bad.*
-Your M through the tournament.
Review these after the tournament and see if you made any mistakes, or places where you could have made more chips. I’ve learned that bluffing off a lot of chips is a big mistake, semi bluffs yes, pure bluffs will cost you once you get short handed as you are going to get called down more.
I was one of the top chip leader, #3 with 64 people left and I bluffed off my stack with 88 against the chip leader holding AQ on a AAQ flop, very big mistake. I had enough chips at that time to take 10 bad beats from any of the other players and made a huge mental error there. I could have almost cruised to a ticket from that chip stack alone.
Started playing some shootouts too. 36 players 6 tables. Lost the chip lead early when I was heads up by moving in AJs against 55 and losing the race. Mistake on my part as the blinds were still very low and I should have seen a flop and then gone from there, trapping game with a big stack would seem to make more sense and then pick up orphan pots. Second try I came in 2nd overall and I loook back at one bluff when we were almost even in chips as being the problem. It is helping my final table play though so I will work on them more in the future.