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I play alot of $3.50 9man sit and go tourneys and I tend to have a solid 40% ITM for longer streches of time and biuld my BR but than I get comftorable and I tend to not focus and overplay my hands hence loosing my profits. How can I keep my focus and not throw my profits away?
 
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I play alot of $3.50 9man sit and go tourneys and I tend to have a solid 40% ITM for longer streches of time and biuld my BR but than I get comftorable and I tend to not focus and overplay my hands hence loosing my profits. How can I keep my focus and not throw my profits away?

Play with a smaller buy-in.Try playing the cache on 1- 2 cents.
 
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Watch a movie on the side. Keep yourself entertained. Every hour, do some push ups.
 
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Sounds like you are doing fairly well. I find the best way to keep my focus, is to remind myself what am I playing for. Keep a mental checklist close by.
 
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The best I've ever stayed engaged long-term was actively making player notes based on observed play while staying close to TAG play. In tournaments, there were enough table moves to keep it interesting.
 
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I play alot of $3.50 9man sit and go tourneys and I tend to have a solid 40% ITM for longer streches of time and biuld my BR but than I get comftorable and I tend to not focus and overplay my hands hence loosing my profits. How can I keep my focus and not throw my profits away?

Happened to me quite a lot. What I do now depends on the tournament. If the tournament is not important or not very important, I'll be studying or watching a movie/listening to music and only focus on the play whenever it's my turn. If it's more important, I'll enroll on some other less important tournaments on the side. For example, you could enroll 1 or 2 $.10 tournaments. Multi-tabling helps me keep active and focused. Just experiment and see how much tables you can handle.

Most generally though, take a break. Every 1 or 2 tournaments, go around the block, do some push-ups, eat, go for a coffee, etc. Just stay away for 5-15 minutes and do something physical. You'll be pretty fresh by the time you come back!

EDIT: @FromHereOn also has a pretty good point. Taking notes, even when you're not playing, will keep you interested and focused on the game in question.
 
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You seems fading away for long hour tournaments.

First, have to condition yourself before tourney begins like good sleep, not physically fatigue, etc.

During tourney, you can stretch for awhile or have some coffee.
 
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Yea taking notes does help me concentrate but some days I just can't spot anything worth writing down.
 
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Yea taking notes does help me concentrate but some days I just can't spot anything worth writing down.

Yea happens to me too, still not mastering this art.

Assuming you don't have a HUD, write down a rough % of the amount of hands the guy is playing pre-flop. Write down another rough % of the amount of times he is entering the pot with a raise. Those are the 2 most important things to know about every player because it defines their range.

The next most important thing (IMO) is what do they do if they are in the blinds and you raise from the CU or BU. What % of the time do they fold? And when they don't fold, do they 3-bet or simply call as a defense? What do they 3-bet/call with?

When they are post-flop, are they aggressive or passive? Do they raise most of the time, do they simply check/call? Do they set traps? Do they slowplay high flushes, the nut straight, or sets? Do they fold to a c-bet on the Flop?

And if you end up going to showdown, write down their hand and how they played it. I usually make a quick summary of the interesting hands they played and how they played it until the river. I've watched some pro streams and noticed that they actually copy/paste a hand history they shared with that player into the note field (you actually see the "Seat 1: x, Seat 2: y"). Then they go down to the interesting part and see how the guy played that hand.

But I prefer a short summary like "Called pre-flop 3BB raise with 44 UTG after limping, check/called set until the River with a +/- dry board, check/shoved River" over this approach. If I have enough hands on him then eventually I delete all this history and place a general range there. For example "will call preflop from any position with pocket pair; will check/call with a monster until the River in a dry board, then check/shove, and if the board is wet will bet the pot on the flop, and shove on the turn".
 
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