Since my last big tournament win, I have been playing like a dog and not even got into the money in a single tournament and have lost something like 12 million chips in tournament fees over the last couple of weeks. I thought I would soon be waiting for midnight to get my 2500 chips so as to get a game.
However, I flipped through the above-named book in which I had invested $5 and picked up a few ideas on where I was going wrong and tried to implement them. For three tournaments in a row, I played quite well but was just eliminated on the bubble when going for the double up.
Finally tonight it all came right again and I played in a 1-million chip buy-in tournament and seized the tournament lead in the first few minutes and led from pillar to post nearly all the way, winning back most of the lost chips. I was pretty lucky with some flops, but then again I never had any hand better than AQ unsuited (one time) and TT one time.
Definitely recommend this book for tournament strategy, though the system is really for live tournaments, where it is assumed that players will not call pot-sized bets on flush and straight draws–which is not the case on RP.
This is the early hand that set me on my career as table bully. Flopping a straight is always nice. Would you have called my shove on the flop in my opponent’s place with the overpair and open ended straight draw? I think his first mistake was the miniraise before the flop allowing me to play the hand from position
Here is an interesting hand where I flopped a full house, and then opponent made a flush. I was sorry not to eliminate him on this hand as he was a very tough opponent and fought back to finish in the money, though I eventually eliminated him with a lucky flush on the final table.
Here is another hand that crippled a very tough opponent, but I have to think he would have won the pot had he bet his hand more strongly on the flop.
I used a number of concepts from Snyder’s book, which explains why I was playing some hands that I might not normally have played. His basic formula is to get a very big stack and then bully the table, which is easier said than done, but on this occasion it worked out well and on the final table I was able to steadily build my stack until opponents fell away. I have not yet mastered his book, but I think further study will help me to improve more.