I guess in order to be great at poker you have to train yourself to deal with anything. The past few week have been a real learning phase for me to say the least. What alot of people don't understand is the long hours; And the struggles you have to endure,behind the success.
Alot of days when i play i really sux and most days i play well. The down side is more often than not; When i do play well or go deep after 6 hrs there's no final table. I have busted out deep this week like countless times.
I set alot of goals for myself when i enter the MTT's; And most of the time i fail due to lack of MTT experience.One thing that i have done lately in play in the smaller buy- in events.
What i am starting to understand more; Is the fact of playing the situations instead of the cards. Online poker is a very very aggressive game; As i have learned very quickly. There was a time when i was unable to make the first hour of these things. But now instead of wondering if i am going to cash; Or if i am going to make the 1st hour. I am now trying to figure out when and where to make the next push; Or if i have enough fold equity to make a move.
Here lately i have found myself making the money more often than not; Which leads me to beleive that i am starting to get an understanding of the game itself. I have learned to play shit cards like monsters with position.
I have knowledge of things now that i did not have in the past. Each day i am becoming a much better player as well. For now i will just continue to keep track of all of my mistakes,as i will keep pushing as hard as ever to make the final tables. Sometimes i will get down on myself for my play; But most times i am really happy about the moves that i have learned to make by myself.
Most of the shit i have learned comes from the many bad moves that i have made late in MTT's or sng's. The shit i go though has no price that you can put on it. Some days i think that i am going over board with Poker; And other times i feel this is what you have to do win the grind.
I am starting to find the errors in my game instead of blaming the cards. I am truly understanding the skill and the balls it takes to go deep. After all it's only a game and the only thing that can happend, is that you bust out!
Tonight i learned my latest lesson when you in the money in a MTT. Now i don't like to give away any secrets. But tonight i was involved in a very interesting hand for me anyway.
During the late stages i keep track of who raises in the late positions the most. When they steal the 1st time i just take a note of it. I don't call or reshove unless i have a real hand. After i peg them for late position steals a couple of times i will then reshove or 3 bet them from the button small blind ect.
Well right now i base this on a read for table time. By saying this i mean that when they move you too a new table it starts over. So when they try to steal that 2nd or 3rd time i will 3bet them or shove if i have atleast half of their stack.
Well tonight i noticed that the aggrssive player were stealing using 3x or 3.5x the bb. At the time though i didn't really pay this attention; But i will pay attention from now on,because i busted out of the $27.50 tonight in the money though LOL because of this.
It turns out that late in MTT's when the blinds are bigger and players are eager to move all-in; When these stealers pick up a real hand they do one of two things. The 1st thing i noticed is that the size of the bet changes when they pick up a real hand.
The next thing i have noticed is that the raise reflects the caller or short stack giving odds to call his push. Now what i figured is that if a guy had 25,000 in his stack and you have 17,500 in your stack; He bets something like 6,500 and you push!
What he is saying is that he has a good hand now; And that if you push all-in i have you covered and i have the odds to call.
The normal push was something like 3500 to 4000 range. So with me being the donkey MTT player i was unable to pick up on this,but now i have it on file. I read in Harrington on Holdem that you have to be alert when the bet sizes start to change. Too bad for me i acted before i thought about this; But i am also glad that i did!
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