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03-25-2014 , 01:05 AM

MicroStakesHero

stranger

Join Date: Nov 2012 Posts: 10

I don't know if this is the right forum and I know it's a very general question but here's my problem:

I was mainly a live low stakes cash game player for 3 or 4 years and have now been playing love tournaments (mostly casino dailys etc). My problem is in tend to run deep, have cashed in approx. 5%, and even won 2 of them. However, the vast majority of the time I find myself short stacked as we approach the money bubble and forced into fold/shove mode. Am I'm I playing too right early? Folding too easily to aggression? I know you probably need more info but I'm wondering of others have had this problem and fixed it and if so how? Thanks.

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03-25-2014 , 08:10 AM

MicroStakesHero

stranger

Join Date: Nov 2012 Posts: 10

Sorry for all of the typos. It's not easy posting while crying in your car in the casino parking lot. Tears kept hitting the phone screen. O_o

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03-25-2014 , 08:57 AM

TheDefiniteArticle

Indecisive

Join Date: Feb 2012 Posts: 14,122

As a live tournament player it could well just be variance as you have to play for like 10 years to get anything remotely approaching a decent sample of MTTs. If not, it could be that you're repeatedly becoming too tight as the bubble approaches (don't be scared of bubbling, you should aim to maximise your cash expectation which is rarely done by folding to a mincash).

Also, if post 2 is true you're too emotionally affected by individual MTTs.

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03-25-2014 , 09:50 AM

MicroStakesHero

stranger

Join Date: Nov 2012 Posts: 10

Lol. Thanks for the insight. I sometimes feel like I'm a little too tight early. The tourneys I play are filled with loose calling stations so I sometimes try to wait or big hands too often? And no, second post was a lame joke referencing a bunch of typos in the first. Generally, I handle tilt fairly well - I think. Thanks again for the response.

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