Overconfidence is bad and makes the King play loose and sloppy, so playing in a tournament and getting eliminated was good. Placing in the top 72 would have been better.
First is studying and the current preflop project should be done by fall. The King is using a tight guide for preflop play and is branching out to a tight and loose guide and with some adjustments for passive and aggressive games and players. Poker Essays volumes I-III from 2+2 Publishing has a couple articles on the different game types.
The King, to be efficient, has been specializing on just preflop guidelines, and completely neglected the basics. When doing just one task, it is easy to restart it the next day. Neglecting the basics affects game play and has resulted in losses the past two months. But after reviewing the basics, a little, everyday, the gains have returned. After completing this project, preflop studying will be stopped except for some minor tweaking later.
Next was ring games and there were some loose and not too aggressive games to play in. PokerStars is the one stop site for poker. Although the smaller sites, once in a while, have some profitable opportunities. Full Tilt used to have the best freeroll tournaments but not any more. The Cake Poker network was good until they change the avatars to small slits that looks slick and classy but is an eyestrain to look at.
To cap it off, the King played in a freeroll tournament, that only had 8,750 players, and finished in about 1,250th. He lost it all, in the final hand, to a loose player who had an unsuited, one-gap connector - 97 offsuit and the flop had a nine and a seven. The King had AJ offsuit and it was over at the flop unless a miracle could happen on the fourth and fifth streets.
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