Tournament Help!

Irah

In the past week I have really been struggling making it deep in any MTT. My record is as follows:

PokerStars Tournament Leader Points for the period from 2004-10-31 to 2004-11-05
requested by *Islander*99(Irocz103@hotmail.com) on 2004-11-06:

Tournament | Game | Date/Time | Buy-In | Entrants | Place | Points
___________|______________________|__________________|____________|__________|_________|_________

3200470 Hold'em NoLimit 2004-11-02 15:00 $ 50.00 279 37 74.17
3200482 Hold'em PotLimit 2004-11-02 21:00 $ 30.00 251 36 65.50
3200504 Hold'em NoLimit 2004-11-03 16:30 $ 10.00 558 33 82.68
3200559 Hold'em NoLimit 2004-11-04 23:30 $ 20.00 578 48 80.04
3200597 Hold'em NoLimit 2004-11-05 23:30 $ 20.00 526 62 67.18
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Total points: 369.57

It seems that every time I get close to making the money, I really tighten up and either bust out on the bubble, or make it into the first money bracket.
It is really getting frustrating as I desperately want to make it to at least the final table.

Any help or suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

cheers,

Irah

Pigga

i will usually tighten up near the bubble , especially if im shortstacked, but once im in the money i dont play any differently than before.....maybe a bit more aggressive.....because i dont want to 'just make it to the money' im going for the win.....once im ITM im happy with how i've played, just hoping to get higher into the brackets

Irah

It seems lately I have been really unlucky when it gets close to the money, but I am wondering if its my own fault for letting my stack get too small. For example last night in the 20 NL holdem, we are down to 62 players, 54paid, and I am very short stacked, just over 6K. I am on the button and double the blinds which are 3 and 6 hundred. sb folds, bb calls, and we see the flop.

flop comes, J 6 3 rainbow. I move in , he calls my 3800, with Q6,

turn comes 6,

river comes Q

ouch!

Anyways the point of this post was to find out if I should not worry so much about making the money, but puting myself in a position to get to the final table?

Pigga

id probably call w/ any 2 cards (most of em) from a button min raise if it was folded to him.....moreso if he was pretty low stacked.....it looks like a weak steal attempt... i dont know if i'd call all in only w/ 6's.....and i guess asking what you had is irrelevant to this......i think w/ a raise of 3xBB would probably take the blinds/antes but committing half ur stack or so to the pot...which means your not folding at all....you could taken the blinds with a 3-4X BB raise imo, or take the safe move and just folded if that hand that wasnt mentioned, wasnt that great to begin with...


just my 2 cents
hope it helps

Pigga

the_main

i think you have to tighten up near the bubble
if im near the middle of the pack, i will play almost nothing, and fold my BB to min raises.
i refuse to let all that time invested negated by a bad beat

once im in the money i go back to my original style

shortstacked, if it seems like you will get blinded out of the money, you must make an all in move IMO - preferably in late position, with the hopes of stealing the blinds
its about not losing chips at this point, not winning the tourney

yubyub1978

i wish i had any insight for you but im about two tournaments away from getting bubble boy tattoed across my forehead.