I really can’t think of anything to write about today. I haven’t left my office much the past 3 days so I don’t have too many ideas. I guess I’ll write something a little more informative rather than entertaining.

The super turbos on FTP are great, but still no matter how well you play you better be running good. People don’t understand that you can’t just play them over and over again. You have to take breaks and study certain situations. Situations like the very first hand of a tournament. You have 300 chips and you are on the big blind. The blinds are 15 30 and it folds around to the small blind who min raises. You have a hand like Qh9h, what do you do?

Another situation goes something like this. 4 people left and 3 people pay. You have 1000 in chips on the small blind, the button has 1200 chips, utg has 400 and the big blind has 400. The blinds are 75 150, the button shoves. He has you covered and you have 99. Do you call or fold?

ICM is an easy concept to understand. However there are just so many tough spots you can be put in. When you are playing 9-20 tables you notice these tough spots but you don’t have that much time to think about them. If you just keep playing and don’t look back you are never going to learn how to adapt to those situations. They may not happen that often but when you are playing 400 sit n goes a day it adds up. Changing your game may only reflect a 1% difference in your ROI, but that is huge over the long run. I don’t think I will have a true understanding of what my ROI is in these until I have played at least 20,000. Over the first 4000 I’m up but I could just as easily be down.