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G'day from the South Coast, New South Wales, Australia.

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August 10, 2016 - 1:07 pm

Hi all

I’m an obsessed but recreational Poker player. I have a day job. I have been playing for just over 10 years both live and online. Mid to high stakes. I concentrate on tournament poker with very limited cash game experience. I have played the last two Aussie Millions and travel to Sydney and Melbourne casinos for major events. I usually run deep so I am doing something right. I played a few events in Vegas 2015 WSOP and have since been inspired to take my game a lot more serious. I have been identifying leaks, studying advanced strategy, enjoy listening to the TPE and Thinking Poker podcast’s and keep notes on my game.

I seem to have a similar theme in both live and online major MTT tournaments where I build a huge stack, go deep and loose my stack with a major brain fart moment during the mid levels. I have accepted that it cant always be just attributed to variance and there are better ways to play a big stack. Instead of spewing chips with JJ , QQ or AK.

I have been inspired by playing on tables during the last Aussie Millions with pro’s James Obst, Joe Hachem, Erik Siedel, Martin Jacobson, Steve O’Dwyer, Dzmitry Urbanovich and it was Phillipp Gruissem who busted me with AK into my QQ preflop on Day 3.

Hoping these great videos and some advice will help me start making some final tables more often.

The Riceman

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August 10, 2016 - 8:56 pm

yes…the brain fart.

I know it well. The only ammunition I know of which can combat it is just to take your time and think over EVERY spot. Even if you flop a full house, take some time. Is there a better full house possible? (Quads?). Sometimes I get berated on Stars because I take time to think even when after the hand is over I was ahead 99.999% of the time. “Why the tank?” etc. I don’t care, I think over EVERY spot, and consider villain’s range, my perceived range, even what I think villain thinks I think he has.

Take your time, that’s the best I can offer.

Welcome, btw!

Killingbird

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August 11, 2016 - 12:36 pm

welcome to the TPE family!!

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August 12, 2016 - 8:41 pm

Welcome aboard. Losing AK/QQ type flips is fine if you’re not getting 80 bigs in preflop. We have some similarities in that I’m an obsessed rec, but I save my flammable dollars for the WSOP mostly.

If I may stereotype further, the videos here will help you more with postflop play, reducing a dependency on getting all in preflop.

My girlfriend works for Atlassian. Perhaps I’ll join her on a business trip should it be during one of the major tournaments down under.

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