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Short field in the LivePokerRadio game last night. I almost unregistered. But then figured WTF, I'll pretend its a pushfest and go all-in every hand.

But then I didn't. For some reason I just couldn't bring myself to do it. So instead, I played loose passive early. Why I have a problem with just pushing every hand when I'm not really interested in playing, but playing loose passive is ok, is beyond me. It seems like I would stand a much better chance just pushing.

After a bit of this, I decided to adapt a new strategy. WWLJD - What would LJ do. LJ brings in major MTT dollars, so I figured I'd pretend I was her, and see what happened. In reality, I played like a caricature of LJ. I think there was one series where I raised pre-flop 8 times in a row. You know what? I won all of them. Mostly pre-flop. But one or two post-flop with air.

Long story short, playing like a cartoon version of LJ netted me 1st place against a small field of bloggers. If I dial back the looseness a bit, but keep up the aggro and flop texture reading, I may start to see better MTT results as well.

It really makes me wonder if FT rewards loose play though - instead of on the receiving end of sick suck-outs, I was giving them last night. I'm sure its just variance, but it sure felt weird.