10c to $500 Challenge: $316
Well 316 seems quite close to 500 tonight. Played 4 $5 STTs and 1 $1 MTT and cashed in all 5 today.....which gives me reason to believe I cant be a complete donkey. Been making a lot of post bubble and heads up errors which has cost me, but all the same I am building up a head of steam. Will be shifting to a mixture of $5 and $10 tables now.
I dont have a long list of learning outcomes. I know that there are objective hazards in poker, the bad beats, the disconnections etc but they even out and it is subjective factors that make the difference. Knowing the game technically is one thing, playing with maximum concentration and intelligence is another. Wanting to cash - even in a Micky Mouse $1 MTT is what counts. WILL.
Hoping I can do this, and perhaps now I am really starting to believe it is possible. The hardest part so far has been shifting from 10c games to $2.75 games.
Comments
"wanting to cash" is an incorrect and frankly dangerous approach to tournament style. Your true goal should be "wanting to make correct decisions"; irrespective of cashing or not. Its unrealistic to expect to carry on cashing tournaments in a row... is unrealistic to even expect to have total control over whether you cash or not.
This is especially true of MTTs, where the payscale is weighted heavily towards the top few spots. If your goal is always solely to cash then you're missing spots that have potential to propel you further - sure, a coinflip can cause you to bubble... but one bubble and one final table is a better result than squeezing into the money twice and missing the final table with your short stack.
your right alex, although getting it in with AK v K10 when u are covered by that one person and he hits 1010 on the board hurts a bit. however if i win that i get 1st money (have about 70% total chips) and i already had 4th in an 18 man so its all fun and games.
You cashed in 5 consecutive microstakes tourneys on BF!? I think you should put in an app for the next series of High Stakes Poker.
In fact, I have another theory - you ARE Isuldur1. This blog is just a smokescreen for your real job which is taking $5M off Tom Dwan.
I am learning a lot about the psychology of poker from reading this blog. I thought that I busted from a live poker tourney on the bubble last night due to my opponent waking up with AQ in the Big Blind and considered myself quite unfortunate. Apparently this wasn't the case. It was actually because I didn't have the WILL to win. When I master this psychological side I could be deadly...