I am ten feet tall, bulletproof and invisible...
 

At least that is what I must be thinking recently when I play an MTT. A while back I would just wait for decent hands, I only ever went as far as the cards took me. Sometimes that was to the final table, but mostly not even to the money.

A few months ago I started to finall learn to actually play a few more hands early, when to steal some blinds, when I was short enough to shove and actually when to take a stab at bluffing a pot or two.

Recently I think I must feel as though I should win every pot I get in, and that I have to steal anytime it is folded to me, that I can never limp into a pot, and everyone should fold to every bluff I make.

That's not to say I haven't made the right play here and there just to run into a big hand (stealing blinds with A10 on the button and it's folded to me only to run into KK).

It's seems like I have lost all patience and want to take down the entire tourney in 25 hands.

I need help. Is there a decent MTT coach out there that could help? Somewhere in between what I was doing and what I am doing has to be a decent strategy for MTT success, I just can't keep from going to one extreme or the other. :donkey

It's a balancing act between playing the cards and the way you are playing now. I think everyone has gone through the same progression you are going through. As far as a coach, Herchelw has his own website and comes highly recommended by many people on this forum...

herschelw, no question.

Use this link, please:

Funny... I just clicked on that link myself, and the first name I see is "USCPhido" - who I just happened to notice is sitting 6/30 in FTOPS #7 right now ($100r).

$128k for 1st.

He's sitting 5/7 now... big score.

Not bad out of almost 2k players.

He finished 3rd for $63k.

/End hijack.

Thanks for the recommendation of Pokerpwnage. USCphildo is a monster. He followed that $63k finish up with a 3 way chop of the $250k on stars last night for $83k. His videos are just amazing to watch. He's truly on another level.