If I play in any tournaments again that will be what I do. I think my strategy from now on will be to stick to cash games and mostly Omaha8 at that. Looking back at what happened to the money I deposited I can mostly blame tournaments for busting me. I am starting to think that they sure are fun, but have to be -ev in the long run. Two or three hours of surviving just to squeak into the money and get double your buy-in back just can't be sound strategy and with as many players as these games get anymore it's just a matter of time before run into a bad beat and there are so many chips in play that making the final table is almost impossible without getting lucky several times or getting dealt tremendous cards over and over. The only final tables I made were games with under 500 players and the only game I ever won was 90 players.
My strategy next time (probably next month after vacation in Atlantic City) will be to focus on moving up in cash games instead of trying to make a big score in a tournament all at once.
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