How about donking around a bit at 2/2 PLO on weekends? Definitely more fun than NL and not really a time suck, run it up a bit or go home! And it should be very beatable too.
I like tourneys. Cash is boring. I get antsy and do dumb shit. I need a goal, and an end.
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Ok fair enough! Have fun folding to 2.2 bb raises 
Come at me with that weak shit and Iām playing back.
Iām not a naturally gifted poker player. But I am pretty good at owning the bubble and final table if I have a stack - like better than a lot of players who are better than me at most parts of the game.
I like it when the psychology part kicks in of whoās scared to bubble or trying to climb the pay ladder. Especially at $150 live tournaments. You can just own peopleās souls.
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Sheās a poker player now. She is trying to get her opponents to underestimate her by intentionally using poor grammar.
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Thereās a psychology part to it? At that stage, I look at it as nearly entirely a math problem.
Psychology tells you what ranges people are going to play, if you want to use an exploitative rather than GTO strategy.
If youāre using a GTO strategy vs. the typical $150 live tourney player youāre doing it very very wrong.
For a little while I had myself convinced that 300% ROI was achievable. I had a $2k score almost every week for a couple months, and then a $7500 score.
Then I went like 35 tournaments with one min-cash and remembered why I hate poker.
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There absolutely is psychology when people donāt want to bubble. More so when they are looking to ladder up to 2nd or 3rd. For the typical $150 tourney player, this stuff is a big deal. They play way too weak around the money and final table, even when they have a dominating stack.
I wasnāt exactly counting that under the definition of āpsychologyā, but I suppose that is a reasonable way to look at it.
Most people play way too loose early, and then tighten up exactly when they should be widening their range.
I wouldnāt say you should play GTO at that stakes, but thereās an argument for not being careful about how exploitative you play if your goal is to play at higher stakes against tougher opponents because you can pick up bad habits. I try not to lose preflop discipline at lower stakes, which may cost me some money.
Counterpoint: lol donkaments
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Iāve never even tried to learn GTO and have no intention of doing so. My only poker goals are to play for fun or a little bit of money vs. donks.
For SNGs I used to have ICM push/fold pretty locked in. So I could refresh on that if I need to. But I have no desire to grind 100s of hours learning GTO.
wtf is going on in this thread
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I donāt enjoy push-fold poker, which is why I like limit tournaments.
I could be way off here because I donāt play much and never really played SNGs, but isnāt ICM push/fold pretty much designed to be GTO play?
so you think that was verbatim and in no way the guy possibly misquoted in a tweet, that would never happen
Oh, thatās definitely possible. I was just telling you what ripdog was referring to. So I guess you should ask him.
Yes but it doesnāt cover deep stack/early tourney play at all. Itās a small subset of GTO.