dfscott
04-06-2005, 12:09 AM
This may be old hat to some of the experienced players out there, but over the past two nights, I've had an ephiphany of sorts: suddenly, I feel like I know what I'm doing.
Pushing all-in with 72o from the SB doesn't seem so strange anymore. It seems just as natural as raising with AA. Calling a desperate short stack with A6 now seems natural. I used to hold my breath during both of those plays and [cheer/moan] when I saw [JJ/54s]. Now I don't even watch the results half the time -- I'm on to other tables.
And the interesting thing is that the onset of this feeling was accompanied by a fairly bad run of 10 OOTM. I bounced back tonight to cash in 4 out 5, but it didn't seem to matter. I just feel like I've moved to a better place in my play and attitude. Plays that seem intuitively correct at the time are backed up by post-game analysis. Hands that kill me to fold at the time turn out to be the right play when I look at it later in a more objective light.
I don't know if it's a natural part of the evolution of a SnG'er, but I hope it is. I imagine there's probably some oscillation between my original state and this state, but I really enjoy this one and hope to remain here a while -- it's almost zen-like. I'm certainly not tilt-immune by any means, it's just that my game is more automatic and it allows me to think about the trickier situations at a deeper level.
I probably sound like I'm bragging, but that's not my intent. Neither my ITM nor ROI is anything to write home about, but my attitude and approach to the game is markedly different. I guess I just want anyone else that's just starting out that went through the frustration that I did to realize that there's a light at the end of the tunnel.
Edit: And I should also say thanks to all the 2+2'ers that helped me, both with with my play and my attitude -- I didn't make this journey alone.
Pushing all-in with 72o from the SB doesn't seem so strange anymore. It seems just as natural as raising with AA. Calling a desperate short stack with A6 now seems natural. I used to hold my breath during both of those plays and [cheer/moan] when I saw [JJ/54s]. Now I don't even watch the results half the time -- I'm on to other tables.
And the interesting thing is that the onset of this feeling was accompanied by a fairly bad run of 10 OOTM. I bounced back tonight to cash in 4 out 5, but it didn't seem to matter. I just feel like I've moved to a better place in my play and attitude. Plays that seem intuitively correct at the time are backed up by post-game analysis. Hands that kill me to fold at the time turn out to be the right play when I look at it later in a more objective light.
I don't know if it's a natural part of the evolution of a SnG'er, but I hope it is. I imagine there's probably some oscillation between my original state and this state, but I really enjoy this one and hope to remain here a while -- it's almost zen-like. I'm certainly not tilt-immune by any means, it's just that my game is more automatic and it allows me to think about the trickier situations at a deeper level.
I probably sound like I'm bragging, but that's not my intent. Neither my ITM nor ROI is anything to write home about, but my attitude and approach to the game is markedly different. I guess I just want anyone else that's just starting out that went through the frustration that I did to realize that there's a light at the end of the tunnel.
Edit: And I should also say thanks to all the 2+2'ers that helped me, both with with my play and my attitude -- I didn't make this journey alone.