[GTDawg]

In tournaments, I'm usually playing the Top15 or so and playing them strong for a good part of the tourney, and then obviously, loosening up as it goes on and extending to a wider range of hands.

And I used to just go full speed in to cash games and play similar to every one else which was really random and just absolutely terrible poker. however, after losing a little bit of money, I modified my tourney strategy a little bit and applied my thinking to the cash games I play.

In the past few weeks, I don't know how many times we've gotten to the river and I've had pocket TT or something similar that has tripped..and someone called me down with middle pair. Or, it's gotten to the river and it's my AK and someone was calling me down with A7 off with an AKx flop.

Although I start out with a wider range of possible hands in the beginning, I usually still like to keep my hands in check (more in check than I would assume others do) and go from there.