In my never ending quest to get rid of FT points, I've been playing a bunch of satellites. Jesus F Christ these things are soft. Whenever I play tournaments of any type I always say, "...if only we could get these people to play cash games", but wow, this player field is a whole new level of soft. Problem is, I know nothing about these. I recognize the glaring errors in bubble play and near-bubble play, but I can't honestly say I'm playing optimally myself. I've watched some videos, but I'd really like some written resources on topics such as: push/fold ranges on the bubble, how you should play pre bubble with big stacks, how you should play on the bubble with big stacks, etc, etc.
Any guidance whether it be from you guys or directing me somewhere else would be helpful. The math-ier the better.
I wrote a really shitty blog post yesterday because I was drunk, but the point I was trying to get across was genuine. I'm disappointed that I've kind of stagnated as a player. I'm still beating the games, but it's disappointing because I've learned so much about poker and combinatoric math in the past few months and my winrate isn't what I would have expected to be the product of all the work I put in and the intellectual progress I feel I've made. I'm still surprised by the variance inherent in poker and I'm obviously incredibly impressed by people who keep up 3-4ptbb winrates in tough games over big samples. Part of this is that I'm also coming to the realization, that while I can get good money through poker, it likely won't make me stupid rich. As pragmatically as I feel I approached the game, that's got to be the fantasy in the back of everyone's mind when they cam over from TL, right?
In before "shake up your game", because obviously I have to. I may switch to full ring for a bit, because I feel I play a tight range as opener best, and have a solid iso'ing game.
I feel like I'm really good at poker, but I only beat nl100 for like 2.5bb/100 plus I can't conquer variance. I'm not really going to get better. Kinda sucks. Whatever, I'M A WINNING PLAYER. WOOT.
Yesterday I got a trojan called trojan.fakeavalert. I immediately locked my poker accounts, set my registry back to default values, restarted in safe mode, reran virus scan, deleted the bad stuff, and then restarted normally. Now my scans are coming up clean. Is there anything else I should do? Thanks guys.
I didn't play at all yesterday and just got credited with a free 200 point iron day. No email from FTP or anything and my medals count is the same as it was. Has anyone else seen this?
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