naruto_miu
Legend
Silver Level
I don't really know how to put it (Have you ever felt like, why don't things just go your way)? Or what is it about your game that is unprofitable? Or why is that your game is flawed?
I should be happy (I mean), for the past week I've been playing the $1.10 rebuy 30k GTD games on stars and (Yes I've min cashed, over and over), and 2 nights (Yesterday "They called it Sunday Spark", same thing to me personally), and tonight I've had deep runs in it...
Yet I'm encountering the same problems when my chip stack is over the 4mill area (And that problem is WTF do I do)...Do I just open shove when blinds are like 100k-200k (4mill UTG)? Do I raise to 475k and then call it off as long as they don't have me cover'd? I normally don't play deep (Well that deep period TBH)...So I really can't figure out exactly what the correct protocol for plays that deep really is in the 1st place...
Don't get me wrong (My wife is telling me meh, look at all the cash's as a min cash, and that theory has helped me get to the cash's thus far, that thinking "WTF $17 is just a min cash $200 is just a min cash"), it's either #1 or it's just a min cash in my mind (Thus I play reckless, and it actually works out believe it or not), but only on the rebuy stages...And by reckless I mean, I'll stack AJs at a min, and I'll open UTG shove AQo+ only (If you consider that reckless then, that's me)...
So I want to know acouple of questions...
1) Why am I so aggressive in the early stages, and actually build up my stack (No issues at all to like 100k+ in the 1st hour), then continue to actually keep building up my stack, but then when the money bubble bursts I turn into this paralyzed Ostrich...
2) How do I over come this issue, cuz it's really hurting me and I don't know what I can do to combat it (Best way to describe the feeling is not when the money bubble bursts, but when we are like final 200, this fear of not wanting to donk/be donked/unlucky/dread over comes me and I just freeze up and wait for big hands/trying to chip up the LB (And it really REALLY sucks)..
Now tonight I had about 6million in chips and there was about 90 left and I finished 38th (You know why, because I froze once again "That damn ICE is a killer". and I'm so disappointed not because of my finish (Not at all), but because of the way I finished, and how fearless I was playing before and how I ended up when so close to the FT and yet so far, and the damn same thought kept hitting my head over and over and over (DON'T **** UP, DON'T ****ING DONK, DON'T DON'T DON'T), and I seriously could'nt block it out..
So to all you tourney players what/how did you over come your issues in tournys?
The best way to describe the feeling is straight up fear, I mean for example in the same game with 40 left I had 2.8million in chips, and I picked up A9o and everyone folded to me on the button, and I could'nt pull the trigger I mean (Inside I wanted shove my gut said shove, my brain said Are you insane with 40 left Abdi, do you really want to lose so close to the FT? Really REALLY, WTF, anyways I ended up folding, and yes both BvB shoved and they both had bunk and I would've/could've/wished I had shoved but didn't
I should be happy (I mean), for the past week I've been playing the $1.10 rebuy 30k GTD games on stars and (Yes I've min cashed, over and over), and 2 nights (Yesterday "They called it Sunday Spark", same thing to me personally), and tonight I've had deep runs in it...
Yet I'm encountering the same problems when my chip stack is over the 4mill area (And that problem is WTF do I do)...Do I just open shove when blinds are like 100k-200k (4mill UTG)? Do I raise to 475k and then call it off as long as they don't have me cover'd? I normally don't play deep (Well that deep period TBH)...So I really can't figure out exactly what the correct protocol for plays that deep really is in the 1st place...
Don't get me wrong (My wife is telling me meh, look at all the cash's as a min cash, and that theory has helped me get to the cash's thus far, that thinking "WTF $17 is just a min cash $200 is just a min cash"), it's either #1 or it's just a min cash in my mind (Thus I play reckless, and it actually works out believe it or not), but only on the rebuy stages...And by reckless I mean, I'll stack AJs at a min, and I'll open UTG shove AQo+ only (If you consider that reckless then, that's me)...
So I want to know acouple of questions...
1) Why am I so aggressive in the early stages, and actually build up my stack (No issues at all to like 100k+ in the 1st hour), then continue to actually keep building up my stack, but then when the money bubble bursts I turn into this paralyzed Ostrich...
2) How do I over come this issue, cuz it's really hurting me and I don't know what I can do to combat it (Best way to describe the feeling is not when the money bubble bursts, but when we are like final 200, this fear of not wanting to donk/be donked/unlucky/dread over comes me and I just freeze up and wait for big hands/trying to chip up the LB (And it really REALLY sucks)..
Now tonight I had about 6million in chips and there was about 90 left and I finished 38th (You know why, because I froze once again "That damn ICE is a killer". and I'm so disappointed not because of my finish (Not at all), but because of the way I finished, and how fearless I was playing before and how I ended up when so close to the FT and yet so far, and the damn same thought kept hitting my head over and over and over (DON'T **** UP, DON'T ****ING DONK, DON'T DON'T DON'T), and I seriously could'nt block it out..
So to all you tourney players what/how did you over come your issues in tournys?
The best way to describe the feeling is straight up fear, I mean for example in the same game with 40 left I had 2.8million in chips, and I picked up A9o and everyone folded to me on the button, and I could'nt pull the trigger I mean (Inside I wanted shove my gut said shove, my brain said Are you insane with 40 left Abdi, do you really want to lose so close to the FT? Really REALLY, WTF, anyways I ended up folding, and yes both BvB shoved and they both had bunk and I would've/could've/wished I had shoved but didn't
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