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 Great No-Limit Tourney Advice - Thanks!, Bart Mann, 15. Sep 2003 16:09 | ||
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| Those of you reading this message may remember me from a few weeks ago. I'm the one who had a satellite tournament coming up, and asked everyone to send me what they considered to be their all-time single best piece of advice for No-Limit tournament play. I received some GREAT stuff from all of you, and I believe it made a huge difference in my performance. In a pool of 222 players and 40 alternates, I manage to finish 56th--top 20% in only the second No-Limit tournament of my life. Although seats to the "Big Dance" were only given to the Top 21 finishers, I’m extremely happy with the way I played. I never lost a hand (except for the one that put me out), I never folded, and I never made a call—I either bet out or raised every time I was involved in a pot. I used your advice to formulate a game plan, then worked my butt off to stick with it. For those of you that may be in the same situation (No-Limit tournament newbies) the three pieces of advice that I found the most valuable were as follows: #1 - Never enter a pot with a hand you’re not willing to call with if someone raises behind you. This one was HUGE. On the hands I wasn't playing I payed close attention to how many people made big pre-flop bets, only to lay down their hands when someone came over the top. This single piece of advice easily allowed me to finish 25 places higher. Plus, it gave me some good insight on how many people DON'T use this rule, so I can go over the top of them next time. Many NLHE tourney players will use Limit-Holdem basics--play all Ax, any suited connectors, unsuited connected middle-cards, small to medium pairs--but in the end all they were doing was making the pot bigger for someone else. #2 - Be a bettor or a raiser, but never a caller. This pretty much ties back to #1. If you enter pots with solid hands, there's no reason to call. When you come in you can come in aggresively, and as the tournament wears on, people will show you respect. Which is nice when you need to steal a blind to stay alive . . . #3 - Don’t chase drawing hands. I never played suited connectors below KQ, and I stayed away from AX suited--even though it was often tempting to play it. On hands where I didn't play these cards I kept track of the outcomes, and not once in three hours would I have made a winning hand with them. Either the hand was just not there, or someone at the table would have punished me beyond belief to draw to it, and I would have folded. Either way, had I not been given this little nugget I would have probably been out of the tournament somewhere in the low 100s. All said and done, I improved my tournament placement by over 50 spots in two weeks. There's one satellite remaining at the end of September, and after more studying and a complete autopsy of yesterday I've got a legitimate shot to make the Top 20. I don't think I could have said that three weeks ago. Once again, thanks to all of you for your advice. - Bart - | ||
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