Thanks, useful forum
I know it's corny, but I'd just like to thank this forum. Before starting to read it, I got my ass destroyed in multi-tables, my best performance was squeaking into the money once(for a whopping $3 of profit). Generally I got miserably shortstacked and was forced to go all in with Q7o. I played tight-passive, not defending my blinds, I acted like it was a low limit NL ring game.
Armed with Sklansky's book and this forum, I changed my style to attack small pots and avoid coinflips, and in my last 3 MTTs(I hadn't played one in months) I've finished 3rd, 6th, and 1st. Not just dumb luck(well, for the 1st it was a fair chunk of luck, but the other two I think I got more or less average luck, in the 6th I got knocked out by two consecutive allin hands where I was ahead preflop and lost). Anyway, the results aren't really important, what's primarily changed is that I feel more in control during a tourney. I know when I do stupid things, I know when I can run over a table, etc.
Still need work on my headsup and shorthanded game. How do you stop a loose aggressive player from stealing your blinds when you have crap cards? I'm not going to reraise with my 36s when I've seen him call half of his stack with T6o earlier in the night.
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