How do you manage/pace a tourney?

[justT]

See, even Johnny Chan couldn't recover from the dreaded flat line <g>

But seriously, I appreciate the dissenting opinion, it give me the opportunity to re-evaluate.

I come from the slow side of the tracks, so anything that causes me to play a bit faster is probably an improvement. I don’t have a rule that I have to accumulate chips every 3 orbits, it’s more a warning sign. If I go 3 orbits with no action other than surrendering my blinds, I might be card dead OR I might have slipped back into being too selective.

I know I need to constantly be looking for situations to accumulate chips. In the past, a good situation meant good cards, now my game has “evolved” somewhat. When I flat line, I start looking (or maybe look harder) for situations where the cards aren’t as important. Johnny Chan looks for situations, then goes into survival mode and looks for good cards. One of us has the order reversed.

I'm obviously still working on figuring this game out, thanks again for the feedback.