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We should all have dreamt of it at some time or other, making the perfect poker folds and reads, completely dominating a table and decimating the players stacks around us at will. On Wednesday I would say for half the tournament I came about as close to this as I ever have been, with someone later telling me that the players at the table looked constantly frightened of what I was going to do next.

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For some players, simply hitting every flop is what they need for the perfect tournament, but you can never hope for that alone. It is the way you play your cards that makes a tournament as much as how often you hit your hands.

Feeling invincible and playing the best poker you are capable of is a great feeling, but it is surprising how quickly the cards can remind you that you are as vulnerable as everyone else. I can recall only making two mistakes all night in that live tournament, but when everything started to go wrong I feel I did the right thing in tightening up my play. Regardless of this I was still eliminated in 7th with (A,K), but if I had carried this form all the way I would have pretty much wiped out most of the field single handedly.

Of course you need an element of luck to be able to achieve this, but I think reading situations and trusting your judgement is more important. Even half a tournament being so one sided in your favour is an achievement, but having an entire tournament where you are the only player who ever looks like winning, is elusive to the point of being almost impossible.

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