Playing looser after an upswing isn't necessarily a bad thing.
If you're in a tournament where the buy in is more than a couple dollars, people are more likely to play tighter and more conservatively. So after an upswing, you can use your larger chip stack to push people around more. Just don't over-do it.
If you're playing tournaments with lower buy-ins, then you will probably want to retain a standard tight-aggressive style as people are more likely to play with marginal hands, and you won't gain value from trying to bully them with your stack.
In either situation, if you feel yourself loosening up your play to the extent it backfires and you start losing chips consistently, then do something that will calm you: breathing exercise, relaxing sounds or music, whatever works for you. Just do something that will help remind you to stick to what works.
Playing looser after an upswing isn't necessarily a bad thing.
If you're in a tournament where the buy in is more than a couple dollars, people are more likely to play tighter and more conservatively. So after an upswing, you can use your larger chip stack to push people around more. Just don't over-do it.
If you're playing tournaments with lower buy-ins, then you will probably want to retain a standard tight-aggressive style as people are more likely to play with marginal hands, and you won't gain value from trying to bully them with your stack.
In either situation, if you feel yourself loosening up your play to the extent it backfires and you start losing chips consistently, then do something that will calm you: breathing exercise, relaxing sounds or music, whatever works for you. Just do something that will help remind you to stick to what works.
You're welcome. But if you really want to improve your game, understand this: nothing in poker "always works." There is no one size fits all answer that will work for a particular situation every time.
What I pointed out in my above post is something I have found to be generally true, but it's not always true. Poker is about nuance, about noticing little details. Knowing general trends and basic fundamentals of starting hands and betting strategies will help you at micro tables and tournaments; it will probably be enough to make you a consistently winning player there. But to be a good player, and to win at higher buy-in games, you have to learn to adapt.
Yes. sometimes it happens to me, but it hurt when having a big stack and playing freely answer with a good hand and suddenly you give most of his stack some sort of "junk" hand ..
Yes, because you have more "fat" to burn, like the brazilian pro Andre Akkari usually say
I always catch myself:
I play tight agressive at the beginning of a tournament.
Sometimes I catch a upswing.
And then ... I play more and more loose...
Do you know this process?
What are you doing about it?
kkkkk, Worse that's the truth, because we often play conservatively and grow into premium hands, but we end up losing a lot of chips in junk hands against another player, but that's it, it's part of the game as well.
Hi Yelmo,
I think it is not enough to be aggressive.
I think I should be much more patient and wait for a good chance and then play tight aggressive ...