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 Final table full of maniacs, SeanCandy, 9. Dec 2003 07:05 | ||
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| I recently played a small $15 + $1.50 buy-in tourney with 22 entrants that only paid out the top 3. By the time of the final table blinds were 500/1000 and 200 ante. I came to the final table with about T20000. I ranked about 5th in chips...One player went out on the first hand of the played leaving 9 players. Thats when I noticed that 6 out of the 9 players were definitely on the loose aggressive side. The next two hands had larger stacks swinging at flops with nothing and showing their bluffs. Big stack opens preflop with a 5k raise. There is one caller. Flop comes 997 pre-flop raiser bets pot. Caller folds and the better show 23o. This happened a few more times. Then there were people that were having massive swings but winning with Q10 and A9. There were several lucky suckouts. I tend to play a tight/aggressive style and was having a rough time adjusting to their play. What are some ways to adjust when you are in a final table full of maniacs? I hate to make the final table a crap shoot and going all-in and praying that the guys that appear to be calling with anything don't suck out. I had a run of trash starters andI had been blinded and anted down to about 12k when I was in LP with AJ in an un-opened pot. I raised 5000k. The small blind was on a short stack and went all in...The BB called. The BB had been playing almost any A, K, or Qx. The flop came rags. He swung at the pot. I went all-in figuring him to be playing his usual. He called and turned up AA. The SB had KQo...The AA held up and the maniac who finally played a good hand knocked out 2 of us. | ||
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| Re: Final table full of maniacs, Bond18, 9. Dec 2003 14:04 | ||
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| I think when you find yourself at a table like this you got a few options. A. First, play it you like you did, wait for premium hands and bet out expecting to get called and beat em the old fashioned way. This is normally my choice in strategy, but since you ran cold and ran into AA it didn't work out so well, but thats poker. B. Try to get a read on the most loose/aggressive ones and start going over the top with a medium holding such as KT or QJ or A9. Most of the time if their on stone bluff they fold, and if their not you still got SOMETHING that can catch. If the game is the type where they will call your over the top anyway, try to set them up with a powerful hand and make sure to let them act first in this situation, you don't wanna bet out not being able to call if they go over the top, and the checkriase becomes essential here if they are capable of laying a hand down. | ||
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| Re: Final table full of maniacs, PairTheBoard, 9. Dec 2003 15:06 | ||
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| With your 12k stack, if the blinds are still 500-1000 you are not quite yet in the desperate situation where you need to make All-In raises to steal blinds, which is what your 5000 raise amounted to, especially against maniacs. It's a close call though. But a 2000 raise might have been better. I would hate to commit all my chips with AJ in that situation when those maniacs should be frequently knocking themselves out of the tourny. If the blinds were 1000-2000 at that point then I'd say it's time to start making some moves and a pre-flop All-In would be mandatory. jmo - I'd be interested in counterpoints. | ||
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