Posted Fri Mar 24, 2006 7:23 pm GMT by Ewi
A friend and I are going to the local casino here in Pullman, Mr. Z's. I went there back in September and lost about $200 playing blackjack and spanish 21. I didn't play poker because the blinds were $3/$6 if I remember correctly, and that was incredibly steep for me, my online bankroll was only about $100 at the time.
Anyway, I'm going back tomorrow to play in one of their tournys and I need some advice. I'm not very experienced with live play, and I'm sure I'll give away a few tells at times. What I'd like to know is how to spot some tells from other players. I think if I can recognise a few it would help me a little bit. Also if anyone has some strategy for playing in these types of small tournys I'd love to hear it.
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Posted Fri Mar 24, 2006 11:45 pm GMT by xDiamond_CutteRx
The cardinal rule of all physical tells: weak means strong, strong means weak. This is much truer of weak players than of strong ones. Let's see, a few other general ones.
-When a flop hits with 3 suited cards, someone who checks their hole cards again is likely to have one, but not two, cards of that suit.
-When a player looks at the flop for a long time, he probably didn't connect with it. Conversely, if he looks quickly at the flop and then quickly at his stack, he probably has a big hand.
-Before acting, look at the players on your left, and you may get a clue about their actions. If they have their cards in their hands, they're probably about to fold. If they are playing with their chips and looking at another player, they may be thinking about playing, but probably don't have a big hand. If they play with their chips and don't look at anyone, that's usually a sign of strength.
-Staring at another player is a sign of weakness.
All of those tells have made me money at one time or another.
Just remember in any tournament situation, the strongest factor in how you play should be the size of your stack in relation to the blinds. When you get down to 10 BB's or fewer, it's probably time to start moving in before the flop with any reasonable hand.
Other than that, just watch the other players and see what their style is, and try to counter it. Just play your best and have a good time!
Posted Sat Mar 25, 2006 11:59 pm GMT by Ewi
Well, no win for me. It was like a speed tournament or something, 16 players in total, blinds up every 10 minutes. Started with 3000 in chips and blinds began at 50/100.
I did quite well early on. Some of the tips really helped(thanks for those, Diamond). There were a couple of times where I stole the blinds, or a pot on the flop because I looked to see what the other players were doing before I acted. I saw they were holding cards as though to muck so I made a bet about 1/3 pot and took it down.
With blinds at 100/200 I had about 4500 and was about 2nd on my table, as one guy had trippled up with AKo against QQ and KK with an A on the river. After that though my cards were drying up. I called a short stack's all in because he was talking about how he was gonna double up and this was the hand he was waiting for, etc., etc., etc. He had Q9o, I called with QTo, so I was pretty pleased about that.
But the blinds just seemed to jump up in no time and there was no room for error. I tried raising on the button with JTo when it was folded around to me, but got reraised all in and I just couldn't call. After that I was looking to double up with any hand, but a shorter stack than me moved all in utg for just the bb total, folded around to me in the bb and of course I lost to him crippling me further. That was the last hand before the final table and I got assigned into the bb so I was all in, more or less. I had 66, but lost to J9o.
All in all it was pretty interesting. I liked how I played, I just think it was a shame that the blinds moved up so quickly. I would have liked to have had more playing time, I think making the money would have been a real possibility with a more relaxed blind structure.
Posted Sun Mar 26, 2006 12:38 pm GMT by mackkie
With blinds being increased every 10 mins it makes it really difficult for most tight players to play their game.
How many people were in the tourney and what were the payouts?
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