Poker player commented on Poker Tournament Formula 2 by Arnold Snyder
For Arnold, I bought your PTF book #1 and it tryly has helped my game. I had been reading things from Hellmuth, Hones, Harrington, etc., but something about your advice clicked. Especially position play and your comments about wimps. I had been playing tight and aggressive, but waiting for cards too much. Also, I play in short blind tournaments that are largely crap shoots. Invariably, unless I got a couple of big hands early, I got to the final table, but with a short stack. And from there, I just let the aggressors knock each other out and tried to get to the final 3 or 4. Now, I often build large chip stacks or am out earlier than I was. At least I go down in flames. I've gotten a lot of high finishes, and won a few, but still have not made that big breakthrough. I'll be heads-up and often lose to a suckout on the river. In fact, it has happened 5 times out of my last 6 heads-up when I got second place. I made the pot odds too high to call (flopped a straight on one and went all-in. He stayed on a J3 and got runner runner flush), and still got nailed. The other 4 were less than 10% shots for them and they got what they needed, and I just knew it was coming. One a lady tried to…