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I did briefly have your DTD table open last night and would echo Chris' comments about being less tight - obviously I couldn't see any of the cards, but you pretty much always had < 10 BB from around 70 players left and I was willing you to be shoving when on the button / SB vs BB to try and get a few chips.
It's no issue to hang on by a thread when you are down to, say, 20 with 18 getting paid - the money does mean something to you (as a % of BR) and when short stacked it may be the case that even if you do gamble and double up, you'll still be short and not much more likely to FT/TID... so hang on and hope to get down to 18 before your last few blinds disappear.
But from further out, a few more chances need to be taken to get a stack that can more regularly sneak into the cash (and maybe more)... although there are many, MANY, better tourni players than me that you should turn to for advice on that!!
Of course, that does all depend on why you play poker. If it is wholly for fun.. which is no bad thing... and you have as much/more fun by hanging on as long as possible, then ignore all these comments and just keep doing what you are... for £1.10 you can't find many cheaper hobbies for a couple of hours of fun
Just thought I would share this hand for your followers ;')
Finally remembered to check the timing of the Mini M/E Freeroll which I have been saying to myself that I was going to play for some considerable time.
Reg'd it, played it, and ran very deep. Won several very good pots and just kept building my stack up. "This is how winning poker SHOULD be played I told myself".
Got upto about 18k in chips but never above this balance...blinds started to get higher and started to leak away chips quite fast, having been sitting there card dead for some time.
Then out of nowhere with myself sat on a mere 10k in chips comes a very tricky situation as shown in my Exit hand below.
Afterwards I sat there thinking about what had just happened, and had I just thrown it all away as I had my opponent shove his whole stack of around 55 Big's into the middle and I ended up "calling" off my stack of around 8 BB's with JTs. All of this was pre-flop, and the guy turns over AQo.
Just keep feeling annoyed at myself that I had called the all-in and perhaps could I have waited for a better spot?
EXIT HAND
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That J10 should be open shoved. About the worst line possible to take is limp in then call it off. Jam it, AQ still calls and you still go out, but it gives you the chance to pick up the blinds if no-one had anything to call with.
Seems you are still being pretty passive when playing an 8-15bb stack, when you should be looking to play decisive poker.
Gl.
NO1 Dealt AQ in the BB and had a raise in front of me from an earlier (NOT LATER AS SAID BEFORE) position...Am putting him/her on a better hand in this spot.
Monday for me means DTD Deepstack time, and I played in DTD game #2 for £1.10.
Sort of kept my starting stack and dropped a little to around 3k but I won a huge pot meaning I trebled up and kept me in until just after break #3 around 10pm.
Around 15mins before I bust out I earned myself a double up to keep myself involved when I was dealt aces and GII. FOR ONCE they held!
I was down to about 7 BB's and got a decent hand K-10 o/s and decided to middle my chips - Villain turns over POCKET KINGS and it's SIGH, GG for me!
Still another deep run in this MTT and I fed the results into my spreadsheet which tells me my finish %'age and I've finished once again within the top 20% of the field so another decent result.
Because of the raise and the dynamic on my table..I thought the opponent may have repped a good hand such as a big pocket pair.
It seems like you still have a huge mental block around losing that is stopping you playing as optimally as you could.
As a premium hand, when you get a hand like the AQo above, it has to warrant a call (at least) for such a small investment. Only if it's against someone that I've played a good amount of hands vs and traditionally limps wide / raises only AA KK would there be any need to contemplate folding.
When you only have around 20BB if you hit a Q-high or A-high flop you're going to win the pot a lot of the time - and if you do lose to AA/AK/QQ/KK (a pretty small range), just shrug and move onto the next game.
Not sure what to suggest to overcome that to be honest... take a break and save up until you can afford to have £100 to play £1 tourni / DYM games is possibly the only option, which may give you more confidence to lose a few £££ and not really miss it?
It's always going to be tough to build much of a roll up without taking the (optimum play) risks needed to have a chance of winning decent prizes.
I'd volunteer myself but, aside from only playing micro BH tournis, I have too many bad habits that you don't need to be learning! Happy to share if you ever build up a roll for another crack at cash.
Building on the free money option noted above - if you have the ability to deposit there is a ream of risk-free money that can be made by opening accounts via an online referal company (like quidco: http://www.quidco.com/user/87102/1858560/) which could be used to build a roll to then deposit on here.
Most of these offer free money for signing up (albeit it may take up to 6 months for this to be paid to you), then free bets with the actual retailers... and most of these bets could be set up to be no-lose (ie bet team A to win with one company and team B to win with another).
People (including me lol) have earned hundreds from doing this and had a bit of fun on the way (with the free bets!)