After about 14 hours of studying my previous games and some other articles, I sat down and actually wrote out a gameplan. I made a list of hands to play and how to play them in different situations. When I was done i had 364 hands to play from the possible 1326. This gives me a 1 in 4 chance at seeing cards I like depending on possition.
I try to play a "tight" aggressive game. I say tight but for the most part I am aggressive with almost any two cards when I know I have a good shot at buying pots. With all this understood I went to play some games.
To start off the day I 4 tabled some 9 player STTs. I was playing tight and had built my stack up to 3200 when I was dealt KK on the button. The CU raised me 6x the BB and I put in a solid reraise of 3x his raise. I was pushed all in and I called. He flipped KQ and the river came 10-A-J. I lost half my stack. The next hand I'm in CU and I am dealt AA. The same player puts me all in preflop and I call. He shows Ad9c. First four cards are Ac10c2c, Turn is 4c and river is Kd. I am knocked out of my first STT with two bad beats.
I tighten my play down and cash in the other 3, winning the fourth one. At this point I'm feeling ok with myself, I have put my money in good. I get a call from a friend letting me know there is a 6 handed tourny starting in 20 minutes. I sign up. 2040 players join the tournament.
Not much happened during the tournament except I got bad beat twice for about half my chips (later I knocked both of those players out). I was stealing pots over and over again and was going in to 70 players left with second largest stack. I was dealt 10d4d on the button. I decided to 3x BB raise to steal the blinds as no one called behind me. I got action from the SB who had started to fight back with rags the last few hands and I was able to take a decent amount of chips from him.
The flop comes 10c6h4s. The SB put in a pot size raise at me and I call. A 2d comes on the turn giving a full rainbow. The SB throws 15k chips out and I reraise him all in. He smooth calls with Kd4h. He has three outs and he says "****, You have been stealing my pots everytime, I have to make a stand". King drops on the River to give him his 3 outter. I feel sick to my stomache, instead of going from 140k chips to 210k I just dropped to 70K and find myself in 34th out of 69. I think to myself, "This has happened already, I will be fine".
I go back to my pressure style of stealing blinds and small raises and build my stack back to near 90k. with 54 players left I have bullied one guy 3-4 times in a row. He fought back each time with rags and I took down the pots. This time he fights back with his regular reraise and I find myself sitting with pocket 4s. I think I can get him off this hand easy if i just push now. I run into a monster. He flips over KK and thats the end of my tournament with minimal winnings. I felt sick to my stomache because that was the first real mistake I made the whole tournament. I made others but i caught myself before they took any effect.
I jumped right into a 6 handed STT game and quickly found my stack trippled by knocking two players out. I kept playing aggressive and kept running into mosters eventually ending in fourth. And I realized....
.....All my problems that I have with my inconsistancy are due to the fact that I haven't been changing my pace of play from one tournament to the next. I play like I have been at another table, but it is the wrong situation for the table I am currently at. And all my questions have been answered.
Thanks for your comments Nick much appreciated
