Pitcher
04-27-2004, 12:13 PM
Hi All,
I finished my 1st full day playing all $200 tournaments. I was very fortunate with two wins at the end to come out up a couple hundred for the day. The bottom line was that I was down nearly $1800 until that point. Not good!
I must admit that I was very frustrated by the session. During the middle of the session I finished 4th four straight times. In 3 of the 4 times I was the chip leader (twice by very large margins) at the bubble. Then the "all ins every single hand regardless of starting cards" started. At first, I was trying to play my normal shorthanded requirements for all ins, but I started getting lots of very bad hands. In one game I folded to an all in bet on the BB six straight times. The blinds were quite large by then....I looked back in Poker Tracker and these were the starting hands during that stretch: 5-2, 7-4, J-2, 3-4, 9-3, and 10-2. Then I took two huge bad beats in two of the games to get knocked out. AA vs A3, and A-10 vs. 7-5. Both times the players moved all in with these hands from UTG. Of course, that is the perfect time on the bubble to make these plays.
Anyway, during those 4 games at the bubble 90% of the hands were all in pre-flop and during one game every single hand at the bubble was all in. This definitely got me off my game a bit (small tilt, not "tilt overdrive") and after that I played worse and called too many hands the next tourney. I finished 6th (played A-2 vs. A-J on the flop, trying to steal, then wouldn't laydown to a re-raise...just dumb) I took a break after that, wrote down some of my thoughts to get myself emotionally ready to play, then won the last two tourneys I played for the evening. I did play very well the last two, but I must admit, the all ins wore me down emotionally.
Do any of you have any good suggestions for combatting this? I thought I had a good handle on it, but when it is happening on every hand from 3 different players, I just wasn't sure what to do after awhile. Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
Regards,
Pitcher
I finished my 1st full day playing all $200 tournaments. I was very fortunate with two wins at the end to come out up a couple hundred for the day. The bottom line was that I was down nearly $1800 until that point. Not good!
I must admit that I was very frustrated by the session. During the middle of the session I finished 4th four straight times. In 3 of the 4 times I was the chip leader (twice by very large margins) at the bubble. Then the "all ins every single hand regardless of starting cards" started. At first, I was trying to play my normal shorthanded requirements for all ins, but I started getting lots of very bad hands. In one game I folded to an all in bet on the BB six straight times. The blinds were quite large by then....I looked back in Poker Tracker and these were the starting hands during that stretch: 5-2, 7-4, J-2, 3-4, 9-3, and 10-2. Then I took two huge bad beats in two of the games to get knocked out. AA vs A3, and A-10 vs. 7-5. Both times the players moved all in with these hands from UTG. Of course, that is the perfect time on the bubble to make these plays.
Anyway, during those 4 games at the bubble 90% of the hands were all in pre-flop and during one game every single hand at the bubble was all in. This definitely got me off my game a bit (small tilt, not "tilt overdrive") and after that I played worse and called too many hands the next tourney. I finished 6th (played A-2 vs. A-J on the flop, trying to steal, then wouldn't laydown to a re-raise...just dumb) I took a break after that, wrote down some of my thoughts to get myself emotionally ready to play, then won the last two tourneys I played for the evening. I did play very well the last two, but I must admit, the all ins wore me down emotionally.
Do any of you have any good suggestions for combatting this? I thought I had a good handle on it, but when it is happening on every hand from 3 different players, I just wasn't sure what to do after awhile. Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
Regards,
Pitcher