In MTT's, there are two types of patience to pursue, one is passive patience and the other one is steadfast patience. I have traditionally had issues with MTT's in bubble play and either bubble tourneys or min cash. It is due to patience and see that it is the first type of patience "passive patience".

When thinking of MTT's. Each chip has more value on the bubble and pay jumps. I don't want to go into explaining ICM to the crew but it plays into our minds when we fall in danger zones at bubble with a 5bb to 20bb stack in those spots. I believe the edge of solid MTT poker players is they have steadfast patience. It's what's needed to crush the entire tournament as a whole and all other tournaments combined. It's when you are in a tournament and you are correctly rolled for the tournament so that mentally you are better at the game. Also, being real with the volume of your tournament. Let me explain it this way...

If you are able to play 5 days a week and your schedule is a 1K DS, 5K rebuy, and 10K DS, and throw in 5 - 1K turbos in the mix. Depending on where you play, say you are putting in 75 to 100.00 in buyins a day and you have a 50 buyin Your bankroll is say 5000.00 in the poker roll. The high variance of MTT's 50 buyins is a little light in my opinion but for sake of discussion, lets say 50 is ok knowing that you are ok to re deposit or taking out moving down in stakes on tourneys for sake of a downswing.

Now, in a game where mincashing or bubble and not going too deep in the tourneys are a problem, it's possible that passive patience is taking over verses the steadfast patience. Steadfast patience knows about the 50 buyins and that you will take the profitable jam in spots that otherwise the passive patience would take the line of folding because you feel you are afraid of the bad beat and that you have "invested the time playing this tournament not to bubble).

There is value in ICM and also there is value of beating the variance of the entire game as well over the long term. You take a bad beat at the bubble or one in a mincash. The possibility of looking at that same hand 50 times over, variance will say that the same decision would be more profitable in the long run.

Now looking at your schedule... say you play this same schedule 5 days a week, you will see more scores than if you are doing this same schedule only two days a week. So less weekly volume in the MTT means you need a stronger steadfast patience than say when you play more volume.

Why do i write this to you all? Well this is me in a nutshell. i am a low volume player. So with this steadfast patience mentality, it means I need to work more on my steadfast patience and move away the passive patience which will result in a better yearly winrate.

I think for those that play live MTT's or on a MTT circuit for i am sure that the suffering can come from long days of play with slower game play. I honestly love the longer lower structures but I think there is value anyway in this. I think working on steadfast patience would be the route to take verses passive patience.

Last example of this is a hand in a WSOP Circuit i was in at Cincy. I had won a few pots early on in the second level so I was play pretty aggro simply because i had strong cards. The CO was a Circuit reg and this was a re - entry tournament. Multi way pot was brewing, a few limps, CO raises, I 3 bet out of the BB. a fold, a 4 bet hits and CO simply jams, i hold AA so what do i do, fold? NOPE i jam and all folds and CO calls. Lay the cards out on the table and he has QQ and I have AA. He rivers the A. devastating. It took me awhile to get over this but if you are are a circuit grinder and are properly rolled and you have a strong steadfast patience, then you will crush this game for you would just re enter and go at it again and pray that same scenario will hit you with the AA. Again, it was the only event i played. I took my walk of shame, went to play cash for the rest of the day.