hardongear
Legend
Silver Level
A few questions below. You don't need to answer me but you should give them some thou and answer them for yourself. The answers might help ease your mind a bit or make you feel a bit better about where your game is at. Just judging from your comment your game doesn't seem that terrible. I'd say it's pretty good actually.
1) Over how long a period of time? Even the best in the world have streaks where they don't win an MTT for a long period of time. Daniel Negreanu went a whole year 2-3 years ago where he didn't win a single MTT.
2) Blind levels? Longer blind level MTT's(10+ mins) take more luck and coin flips outta the equation). Which equals lower variance compared to 5 min 5-8 min blind levels.
3) Larger fields/small fields? Smaller fields equal lower variance.
4) Freerolls? I've never won them lotteries/bingo yet been play 20+ years.
On the bright side you're getting plenty of good finishes and ITM finishes. Keep studying, plugging away and sooner or later you'll get yours and win one. Variance can be quite a bi*ch took my a quite awhile to break thru and win my first MTT and it was much softer fields way back then.
Best of luck.
1) Over how long a period of time? Even the best in the world have streaks where they don't win an MTT for a long period of time. Daniel Negreanu went a whole year 2-3 years ago where he didn't win a single MTT.
2) Blind levels? Longer blind level MTT's(10+ mins) take more luck and coin flips outta the equation). Which equals lower variance compared to 5 min 5-8 min blind levels.
3) Larger fields/small fields? Smaller fields equal lower variance.
4) Freerolls? I've never won them lotteries/bingo yet been play 20+ years.
On the bright side you're getting plenty of good finishes and ITM finishes. Keep studying, plugging away and sooner or later you'll get yours and win one. Variance can be quite a bi*ch took my a quite awhile to break thru and win my first MTT and it was much softer fields way back then.
Best of luck.
L
luichoWeb00
Rising Star
Bronze Level
machinm19
Visionary
Platinum Level
It’s all about persistence which you clearly have by trying 500 times already. It’s that old saying, if at first you don’t succeed try and try again. Persistence will be rewarded over the long run. As long as you’re playing well it is inevitable that the results will follow. Good luck 🤞
BetterThanAvgButNotByMuch
Visionary
Bronze Level
You can win one if you keep swinging for the fences but its a whole different story to do well in any type of 700+ ppl tourn with some type of consistency.
You can find lots of players in those freerolls/lowbuy-in tourns that have won a tourn but if you look them up, I'd bet a lot of them show zero consistency and they're losing players.
So i'm not a fan of winning a tourn.
Me, I would try to focus on becoming a better player and have more consistency.
And as a few ppl have noted, figure out if whatever goals you want to do are realistic before getting upset you can't do something and get down on something that in imo, in the grand scheme ,isn't that important.
Focus on learning a standard ABC game then continue to look for improvement in your game, not in whether you're up or down or winning a tourn.
GL.
You can find lots of players in those freerolls/lowbuy-in tourns that have won a tourn but if you look them up, I'd bet a lot of them show zero consistency and they're losing players.
So i'm not a fan of winning a tourn.
Me, I would try to focus on becoming a better player and have more consistency.
And as a few ppl have noted, figure out if whatever goals you want to do are realistic before getting upset you can't do something and get down on something that in imo, in the grand scheme ,isn't that important.
Focus on learning a standard ABC game then continue to look for improvement in your game, not in whether you're up or down or winning a tourn.
GL.
Mazembe
Rock Star
Platinum Level
When I started running deep in tournaments I'd always crush it on the final table, but when heads up come I'm always find myself playing bad and finishing second best everytime, not because I had bad hands or anything, but because I was always nervous and had a thing in my head that "I wasn't good at heads up" so I'd find myself alway losing and coming 2nd
But as time went, I've learned and gotten better. Need to be fearless and except that whatever happens happens
anasslaaleg
Rock Star
Platinum Level
Sometimes it's frustrating. We play for hours, we make the right choices, we overcome the bad blows... and yet, the final victory does not happen.
But in reality, not winning is part of the process. Poker is a game of variance, stamina, and discipline. Each tournament is a new opportunity to learn, adapt, and improve.
One day, all these accumulated experiences will turn into a profound race... and then into a victory.
But in reality, not winning is part of the process. Poker is a game of variance, stamina, and discipline. Each tournament is a new opportunity to learn, adapt, and improve.
One day, all these accumulated experiences will turn into a profound race... and then into a victory.