some help turning the corner please.

[HatchetHarry 0]

Hi,This is my first post on the forum, but i would be grateful for a little help if possible. (if u can bare with this, i promise to be more brief in the future!!)I've been playin online for about 2 years now, and due to a disciplined approach I've managed to make a couple of bucks out of it. The thing is i've been on what I percieved to be a bad run for the last 9 months or so, but it's only after alot of soul searching that i've realised i'm just playing out of my league.After a really succesful run at limit poker I played $10/20 for a while and took down a few grand in my first couple of months, but then for some inexplicable reason (well it was inexplicable at the time) I started loosing big style. So after loosing a few grand back at these limits i decided that i was too readable and changed my game. So it was that i dipped my toes into the NLHE MTT's. I faired well winning a few and being in the money quite consitently, but then my predicable style of being a rock till down to 25% of the field then loosening up my pre flop play only to fold 90% of the time that someone came over the top of me or bet out strong on the flop lead on to disaster.So i changes me game again, this time to $1/2 NLHE cash with $200 max. I've been played this for about a week (unforturnatly in my first game i took down $1400 and thought i'd found the holy grail.) safe to say that the 1400 + interest is back in some more fortunate souls pocket now.The format of NL cash games has highlighted gaping holes in my game that not even i could fail to miss.So after a bit of research on the internet and dusting off my old books, i decided that i needed to re-create myself.1) I'd never been one for making notes on players so this i decided to rectify.2) I'd alway's played my cards rather than my opponents, hence making me so readable so i decided to pay alot more attention to my opponents actions.3) I'd never followed my gut instincts on a players actions IE if he called my large aggresive bets pre flop, flop & turn, I'd decide he was on a flush draw and fold (i'm sure you get the picture.) so i decided to go with my reads.4) I lowered the stakes that i was playing.So over the last couple of day's i've played a heap of single table tourney's and found that it's like a new world. Very quickly i could see the loose passive players and raised em up! the very tight passive players and raised em all in with my fh when i knew theyed made there flush on the river. ETC ETC.I was takin money down all over the place and was nearly alway's chip leader (if i was'nt busted out 1st with a misread).so to cut a long story from getting longer.....my question is.I've busted out of most of the tournements that I've gained the chip lead in by making misreads at the end and trying to continue to dominate the table. Is this to be expected and should i just continue to do the same (IE act on my instincs) or should i be changing gears once i've attacked the weaker players and am down to players equal or above my percieved skill level back to my old tight aggresive but sensible style.Generally, i'm hoping that it's not just me that comes to this realisation and that those of you that have gone through it before can give me some pearls of wisdom to help me continue to improve my game.If you got the this part then i pass on my thanks, any help would be most apreciated.

[MrConceit 0]

First to try to address your question... Were you talking about your most recent stab in SnGs or when you had been trying MTTs? In SnGs the "end" is either on the bubble or once you're ITM, and no, you shouldn't be tightening back up very much, it's 3-4 handed and you have to be aggressive overall. Obviously there will be situations where you don't follow this exactly, but in general you don't tighten up when it gets shorthanded, you do the reverse. Most of your decisions on how you're going to play is going to depend on your stack vs the other stacks at that point in SnGs. Along with obviously your cards. For MTTs it again depends so much on where you're at in the pay scale and your stack size vs the others at your table. Are you on the bubble? Are you near final table? Are you on the final table? I hate to give it depends answers, but your question is a bit on the vague side. And if you have an ok stack in a MTT and you perceive your table to be filled with players your equal or better, THEN it is ok to tighten back up a lot. Just wait for premium type hands and go allin is one way to play it, based on the assumption they're better players. And/or raise with a certain frequency to steal but dump if reraised large.As an aside, you really should stop jumping all around so much. It's totally fine to play a lot of different things, but you're jumping completely from one thing to a new thing, and usually when you decide you have a problem with the old one. You need to try to master one or more of these things. Or if/when you decide you don't like SnGs you're going to have to jump to Omaha or Stud, and after that I don't know where.