jasondavies
Rock Star
Silver Level
OK, middle stages of a 300 player tourney, 73 left, top 20 pay, you have 3500 1000 less than average stack, blinds are 100/200 and your UTG, you fold [10s][9s], a hand you really wanted to play (instinct) but couldnt afford to commit enough chips to open the betting with a raise with the risk of being re raised by a later opponent, 2 people go ALL IN, and the flop comes [7c][6s][10d] turn [6d] and then the river [8h] for what would have been a straight. they both showed AK for a chopped pot and you missed you boat out of small stack town, could have had 10800 chips, 3 hands later, your dealt [Kh][7h] on button folded to you, you raise 3XBB and get called by both blinds, flop[Ah][Qs][3d] and it gets bet and then called, so you fold, turn[3h] river [9h] for backdorr flush, both players end up all in, with A5 and AJ, could have been 10800 chips or potentially more given teh last boat you missed.
Does this affect your game?
Does this affect your mental state?
how do you recover?
This is how 80% of my tournaments go, middle stages few chips (sometimes a lot of chips, sometimes had a lot of chips and just lost a stack) but non the less i always seem to miss my "BIG" hands, fair enough 910s UTG is not a great starter and should mostly be folded anyway, but teh boat was there and i missed it, it is starting to have an impact on my middle stage game, any advice will help
Does this affect your game?
Does this affect your mental state?
how do you recover?
This is how 80% of my tournaments go, middle stages few chips (sometimes a lot of chips, sometimes had a lot of chips and just lost a stack) but non the less i always seem to miss my "BIG" hands, fair enough 910s UTG is not a great starter and should mostly be folded anyway, but teh boat was there and i missed it, it is starting to have an impact on my middle stage game, any advice will help