Playing in tournaments…
1.) Stick to one tournament structure, and make sure you master it before going to others. Randomly going back and fourth between tournament structures makes it harder to learn all the exploits you need to make to become one of the top players.
2.) Make the investment in an online class like Raise Your Edge. I still haven’t finished all the videos yet because I work 60 hours a week, but look me up on global poker this year and I’ve been improving greatly.
3.) Be honest with yourself. I always want to see myself as better than everyone else because I am narcissistic, but I still have to keep myself honest as to when I am making a mistake vs when that my opponent got lucky.
4.) This one I still screw up from time to time. Coming from being a cash player, playing a lot of “flips” wasn’t necessarily a bad thing. In tournament play however, it is. Each tourney you start with a -10% ish ev, if you just start flipping all the time you’ll get knocked out to often before you get a chance to outplay your opponents and make some of that ev back. So if you feel like you’d be flipping and that you are actually better than the players around you, you gotta fold some
hands where you feel like you’d be flipping (also stops you from running into AA a lot)