COMRADES, please critique/tear up a bunch of hands

[EricW]

Thanks tigerite!

You were exactly one of the posters whom I was looking foward to hearing from.

I guess I have another question as well for any seasoned vets. I've played 217, $10 sit n gos and my ITM is 41% and ROI is 23%. I think I'm doing well. However, the higher my bank roll becomes, the more "scared poker" I feel obliged to play. I'm playing mind games with myself wondering if what I did was correct, and just constantly second guessing myself. I've played many sit n gos before this (months ago) and I've always been decent. However, I just started this new run (217 so far) and I can honestly say that I was playing more comfortably after 100 sit n gos than now after 217. How can i combat this irrational self doubt?

[tigerite]

That I really can't answer for you, but if it helps, when I came back from my long break and finally went back into the SNGs I was awful, really. I then started playing better, then had 13 OOTM with the worst beats imaginable, and now in the last 50 am on a real upturn again. I play pretty weak-tight in the early stages, but to an extent. I will always take at least a stab at a pot for instance if I rate to be ahead. Just keep belief in your poker and the rest will fall into place, don't second guess or doubt yourself, and definitely don't play scared because of some bad beats, or heaven forbid the odd bad read, we all make them, don't worry.

Oh and my ROI and ITM over the 239 I've played since coming back, allowing for the fact that I was crap in probably my first 80, is at 16% and 36%. 1st/2nd/3rd/4th at 15%/12%/9%/8%, or thereabouts.

[EricW]

Oh, just as an FYI, most of those hands that I posted I ended winning. I just want to make sure that they were the right plays or if there's a better play.

The more I think about the TT hand when the flush hit the more I think it doesn't make sense. I mean why would I go all in after a card pops up that makes my hand slightly worse? I probably could have bet less I'm thinking.

[tigerite]

Well at least half the hands I don't really see much wrong with, maybe just the bet amounts. Just the two 99 hands I don't fully understand, maybe you don't like the hand or something [img]/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img]