Rehab

Hi. My name is Eddie and I am a bluff-aholic! I need rehab! For the third time in four tries I donked out of Poker Stars' Nightly 70k by pushing too hard with marginal hands, or cbetting the flop AND the turn, only to get called all the way down. I know this is the wrong way to play a large entry event (1500+ players) yet I'm having difficulty fighting my tendencies.

The irony, of course, is that PLO8 is supposed to be the game with the least amount of bluffing due to the large amount of possibilities. Of course, I bluff like crazy in that game too, because so few people expect it. Tonight was a good night, because I ran many river bluffs and got away with a lot more than I didn't.

Getting back to the Nightly70k, I need to improve, because this is a tournament I like playing in. I haven't been playing a lot of NLHE tourneys, and I want to get back into it because that is where the big scores are. I've re-read Harrington. I'm re-reading Sklansky. I think at this point it is just re-learning the nuances, which I had a good feel for back in 2008 when I won my last tourney, and figuring out when to push, and when to slow down.