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 Single Table Tourney strategy, beigs, 30. Jun 2003 14:06 | ||
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| I'm going to be playing in a single table sattelite later. Top two players make it to the bigger tourney. Any tips. The tourney structure is the kind everyone here hates (but i did well so I'm giving it another go! :) Everyone starts with T150. Inital limits are 3/6. Limits increase every 15 minutes. Thanks in advance, Beigs | ||
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| Re: Single Table Tourney strategy, Risky Business, 30. Jun 2003 14:13 | ||
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| Why are you asking us..........champ? on 30. Jun 2003 14:06 beigs wrote: > > I'm going to be playing in a single table sattelite later. Top two players > make it to the bigger tourney. Any tips. > > The tourney structure is the kind everyone here hates (but i did well so I'm > giving it another go! :) Everyone starts with T150. Inital limits are 3/6. > Limits increase every 15 minutes. > > Thanks in advance, > Beigs | ||
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| Re: Single Table Tourney strategy, beigs, 30. Jun 2003 14:26 | ||
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| Um.... beginner's luck? on 30. Jun 2003 14:13 Risky Business wrote: > Why are you asking us..........champ? > > > on 30. Jun 2003 14:06 beigs wrote: > > > > I'm going to be playing in a single table sattelite later. Top two players > > make it to the bigger tourney. Any tips. > > > > The tourney structure is the kind everyone here hates (but i did well so I'm > > giving it another go! :) Everyone starts with T150. Inital limits are 3/6. > > Limits increase every 15 minutes. > > > > Thanks in advance, > > Beigs | ||
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| Re: Single Table Tourney strategy, NiceFella, 30. Jun 2003 20:28 | ||
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| In the future, I recommend playing a lot of cheap online single-table tournaments. This will give you invaluable experience in this sort of play. Single-table tourneys are my favorite form of poker. There's a lot of drama and excitement. In a nutshell, here's my single-table tourney strategy. Others may disagree. -- Early on, play *extremely* tight. You can't afford to lose chips. Play speculative hands only if there are a lot of players in, and you are drawing to the nuts. In the beginning stages of the tournament you have time to wait. Use it. -- You will see some players playing extremely loose and aggressive. They will either get lucky or bust out early. Don't fall for this. Don't rely on luck. -- When you do play a hand, take the lead and play it aggressively. In short tournaments many players are scared because chips are so precious. It is easier to buy a pot with a bet or raise than in a ring game. -- When the number of players gets down to four or five, take the gloves off. Most pots will be heads-up. Raise aggressively. If the other players are naive, you should be raising all the time. -- When there are two players left, it may be down to luck if the blinds are high. Play very aggressively, but back off quickly when beaten. -- When you are sure you are beaten, fold. This will be extremely hard to do when the blinds are high, you have invested a lot in a pot, and you have only a few chips left. Believe me, a few chips are better than none, and big comebacks are possible. Stay tough. Don't sigh with resignation and throw those last chips in. Hang on to them. Best of luck. | ||
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| Re: Single Table Tourney strategy, beigs, 1. Jul 2003 09:48 | ||
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| on 30. Jun 2003 20:28 NiceFella wrote: > In the future, I recommend playing a lot of cheap online single-table tournaments. > This will give you invaluable experience in this sort of play. Single-table tourneys > are my favorite form of poker. There's a lot of drama and excitement. > > In a nutshell, here's my single-table tourney strategy. Others may disagree. > > -- Early on, play *extremely* tight. You can't afford to lose chips. Play > speculative hands only if there are a lot of players in, and you are drawing to the > nuts. In the beginning stages of the tournament you have time to wait. Use it. > > -- You will see some players playing extremely loose and aggressive. They will > either get lucky or bust out early. Don't fall for this. Don't rely on luck. > > -- When you do play a hand, take the lead and play it aggressively. In short > tournaments many players are scared because chips are so precious. It is easier to > buy a pot with a bet or raise than in a ring game. > > -- When the number of players gets down to four or five, take the gloves off. Most > pots will be heads-up. Raise aggressively. If the other players are naive, you should > be raising all the time. > > -- When there are two players left, it may be down to luck if the blinds are high. > Play very aggressively, but back off quickly when beaten. > > -- When you are sure you are beaten, fold. This will be extremely hard to do when > the blinds are high, you have invested a lot in a pot, and you have only a few chips > left. Believe me, a few chips are better than none, and big comebacks are possible. > Stay tough. Don't sigh with resignation and throw those last chips in. Hang on to > them. > > Best of luck. > Thanks for the tips. This was an interesting experience. Two players didn't play a hand for the first two levels. I figured that they were just waiting for players to knock themselves out and then they would loosen up. Never happened. The just folded everything. One guy played everything, lost almost all of his money, won three or four all-in bets. Ended up finishing second. Fortunately, by the time we got heads-up I had most of the chips. I was able to bully him a little. I was really surprised at how many poor opening hands people would play. I lost a big pot to someone who played J2o and ended up with a full house, 2s full of Jacks. He said they hit the wrong button. I don't believe him. Other people would play Q5o. T7s. Things that I wouldn't have played. But I won, so I won't complain! Thanks again. The information will prove valueable in the future. Beigs | ||
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| Re: Single Table Tourney strategy, Jav, 1. Jul 2003 09:56 | ||
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| I did that yesterday. It was the very beginning of a tournament, and I went to the kitchen to get a coke. When I got back it was my turn to play and I went to fold my junk hand. Unfortunately someone had raised (NL Tournament) about 250 (we started with T1500), and I hit the raise button. So I was down to about T980 before I even started. Sigh. But I did end up coming in 3rd.. | ||
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| Re: Single Table Tourney strategy, TKarrde, 1. Jul 2003 11:14 | ||
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| Beigs... at Ultimate Bet. When there are people scheduled for a tournament and don't show they are still in the game (or at least for the first 20 minutes). The computer just posts all their blinds and folds all their hands. Even if they would have limped in with the Big Blind. I've even done this on a Sit and Go. Had the chip lead and then had to leave. Computer kept me playing in the game but folding everything. I did get 3rd place in that. Congrats!!!! So did you win anything besides a tounament entry? If you get any more of those Planet Poker poker chips ... let me know!! :) TKarrde "You fool! You fell victim to one of the classic blunders! The most famous is never to get involved in a land war in Asia. And only slightly less well known is this: never go in against a Sicilian (Mozman) when death is on the line!" | ||
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| Re: Single Table Tourney strategy, beigs, 1. Jul 2003 11:36 | ||
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| Won 50 bucks. The buy in was 30 with 7 going to the prize pool and 22 going to the house. The top two finishers won seats into the tournament which is a 100 dollar buy in so I imagine 20 of that 22 dollars pays for that. Second place paid 20 dollars. that's less than the buy in! Good thing I won. So, I guess I got paid 20 bucks to play in Friday's tourney. If you're around Planet Poker around that time, look for me. Tournament starts at 3:00PM Eastern. I think. | ||
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| Beigs - How did you do?, TKarrde, 1. Jul 2003 09:20 | ||
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| Well? TKarrde "You fool! You fell victim to one of the classic blunders! The most famous is never to get involved in a land war in Asia. And only slightly less well known is this: never go in against a Sicilian (Mozman) when death is on the line!" | ||
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| Re: Beigs - How did you do?, beigs, 1. Jul 2003 09:28 | ||
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| I won, of course! ;) I posted two hands that I misplayed. The post is called Two Tourney Hand Questions. I'm still waiting for confirmation that I have a spot in the 10K tourney on Friday. I was pretty sure the tourney I played yesterday was a satellite for that tournament. Strange. Planet has always been on the ball about those things. | ||
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