yep - twas about taking time in decision-making - stop rushing into a decision - literally sit on hands for a moment - Ed went on to win an MTT with 543 runners following Tikay's advice.
It's actully a true story, the "sitting on your hands" story.
Young Chili blitzed the field at Gutshot a few weeks back, but busted out 5th.
Her exit hand was two pair over two pair. Most felt, at the time, she was unlucky.
But the clue to the mistake was the way the chips went in. R, RR, RRR, call, bish bash bosh, 500,000 chips were in the middle in the blink of an eye, who can get their chips in quickest sorta thing.
She was not unlucky. Running through the play of the hand later, after the disappointment had diluted, it was obvious.
There were SO MANY bits of information out there to suggest she was losing. Really. Some were normal betting "tells", others were far more easy to read, nothing to do with the hand itself, rather a much wider analysis of Chili & Matey Boy in that hand at that time. And the conclusion we reached was that if he had thought about it properly, she would have realised she was way behind.
So the "lesson" was, hey, THINK about what you are doing, especially on major decisions. Take your time if you have to. If she had, she would not have got all her chips in. She will be a better player for that lesson, & has improved her game since then by leaps & bounds because of that. And no, I don't give her, or anyone else for that matter, hand advice, (how could I?) but I do try & get people to recognize their weaknesses. Unless you do, improvement never comes. So she was surrounded by everyone saying "well done" & the reality was it was not well done at all, it was a mistake. I'm pleased to say she recognized that very quickly. It's so easy to see fault in other people's games, I just can sort my game out! And I KNOW my weaknesses!
So she's sorted it now - she sits on her hands for 25 seconds, then she can't rush the decision. El blondie has a similar routine, sips some water, thinks, more water, then ACT.
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