The Danger Zone

Started my Feb running deep in some pretty huge tourneys (for me) with big stacks (unusual for me) and bubbled/small cashed all of them. I'm surprisingly not too disappointed, in the past I'd usually just sit right back and slide into the final table with 10bb, busting pretty soon after. Now though I've completely re-tooled my game for late stage tourneys with much better/aggro play which I'm really happy about which will obv sometimes result in some big implosions when I run super bad but result in significantly more high finishes/wins.

Most of these changes came from watching SEABEAST videos on leggopoker. They're a few years old but ridiculously awesome, the best tourney vids I've seen by far. He thinks so deeply about the game, exposing me to just how interesting/situational tournaments can be without unnecessarily overcomplicating things or out levelling himself. For example if it's 1k/2k blinds and there's a 50k stack in the blinds he'll tend to open it to 4885 if he doesn't want a light shove and 5150 if he does as people know 10x is a good re-stealing size so when they see 5xxx they know they're in that range and 4xxx they're not. Obviously he doesn't do this against everyone and all the time, but tiny adaptions like this make perfect sense and I'd think a pretty big difference when you add them all up. He talks about top 3 being "the money that matters" which I think is a really good mentality to have, not so much that you'll just completely spew with 30 left to try and accumulate chips but I always end up thinking "oh if I get 7th that'll be a pretty good day" or something retarded like that.

Also I'm super psyched for the new Samsung Series 9 laptops to be coming out this month, I think it's going to be the best travelling poker playing laptop by far. 15" HD (1600x900) screen in a 14" chasis, super light/thin, SSD, 8gb of RAM, long battery life. I've been waiting forever or macbook airs/ultrabooks to make 15" screens (I find 13" too small to play on) so I'm glad they're finally catching on. Hopefully the Australian release date will be on or near the US one, fingers crossed.

That's all for now, time for UFC and Justified.