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I agree with Monk, the problem is not staying away from ring games, but meeting & beating them
. The fact that you are doing well in MTTs means that you have the discipline, which is the biggest battle.I'm with you though on the problem of playing well in a tournament, pay $50 entry, make $100 or $200, then move to a ring game and watch your game go to seed. I have noticed from my notes that whenever I play a ring game immediately after a tournament, the results, playing decisions, everything (!!) are horrible. I look at the hand history and wonder who the hell played this way. The times that I finished a tournaemnt, and had a chore or some work to do to make a break, and THEN sat down to play a ring game, I have very good results.
So for me it is a question of mindset. The mindset for a tournament is different enough from ring games that you need to unplug a bit between them. Two years ago I was playing well in the biggest and best tournament (B&M) of my life. When I left the tournament a few seats away from the final table I passed on the great side action and instead went to the Mirage to book a table at Renoirs to celebrate.
You see, for B&M play I already knew that stepping right into a ring game after a tournament is a bankroll killer, yet it never occurred to me for online play until I saw the pattern in my notebook. I tell you, I felt like a dummy when the question of gapping my play between tournaments and ring games emerged.
This is - by the way - a good example why keeping some kind of a poker journal is valuable. When you are looking to plug leaks, you need all the help you can get.
Since I have done that online, my ring game results have improved. Hope this idea is one that could help.
Statistics: Posted by flintsword — Sat Dec 04, 2004 6:20 pm
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Statistics: Posted by Felonius_Monk — Fri Dec 03, 2004 10:33 am
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