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[QUOTE="IADaveMark, post: 6916828, member: 490208"]
[SIZE=6][COLOR=rgb(184, 49, 47)]"That hand isn’t playable just because you are bored."[/COLOR][/SIZE]

2 summers ago, while at WSOP, Maxx and I were texting back and forth mid-tourney. He mentioned that he had made a stupid play because he was trying to make something happen. Later, he said that he was "just not very good at these longer events." (That has since changed a lot!) Over dinner, I brought up those 2 comments and suggested to him that they were related. "You're just getting bored and trying to make a move." He agreed and we both went on to have serious cashes in that event and that weekend.

It didn't become one of the mantras until the past few months though as I realized that I was doing a lot of it myself recently. Oddly, some of it came up when I was playing cash instead of tournaments. In cash games, you can pretty much limp in with anything because you usually start (and stay) 300bb deep. That luxury is pretty rare in tournaments. It is better to wait for your regularly playable hands (I VPIP about 23% myself) than loosen up, play more questionable stuff and burn off more 2.5bb pre bets or, worse, lose because your weak hand was 2nd best. Again.
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