Posted Tue Jan 23, 2007 11:05 pm GMT by BigSlick34
Well I played my third tourny on the new site. I didn't even catch one horrible beat when i went in with higher pp's i usually won. Anyway, I was rolling along in the 90 man sng until a friends car broke down and I had to just let the blinds roll. Good & Bad, I ended up in 5th place out of 90 and I cant complain one bit 
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Posted Wed Jan 24, 2007 1:28 am GMT by ninetensuited
good job
Posted Wed Jan 24, 2007 1:33 am GMT by MrDarling
Yeah, don't you know FullTilt give special cards to new users.
As a new user you get much less bad beats, you often crack A's or better if you call big raises with rags hands and most of your draws come true.
I recommend playing as much as possible while this period start, you'd notice directly when they turn the switch on you.
Though, often they will turn it back, just to let you think you're doing good again.
j/k
Posted Wed Jan 24, 2007 4:35 am GMT by raisebot
i think you're getting full tilt confused with pokerstars
thats why i switched to tony g poker. when they throw the doomswitch on you, you hear this voice with an australian accent say "I'm gonna take every last dollar you own". that way, i know to play super-tight
Posted Wed Jan 24, 2007 9:41 am GMT by BigSlick34
O Jeese! I'm in trouble! Actually in all of reality, I hit absolutely crap for cards. I doubled up on kings, queens, A10flush. that accounted for 90% of my chips. only "rags" I played were suited connectors or once in a long time I'd throw a position raise on the blinds. As for playing loose, I couldnt get into the loose-agressive game due to 2 maniacs going back and forth every hand. Next time I'll throw up some hands and maybe you guys could correct my betting or give me some tips:) One question I have before flop with no raises in front of u say u have kj, 10j qj. nothing all powerful do you still stick with atleast a 3X raise?
Thanks ahead of time:)
Posted Wed Jan 24, 2007 9:45 am GMT by MrDarling
| BigSlick34 wrote: | One question I have before flop with no raises in front of u say u have kj, 10j qj. nothing all powerful do you still stick with atleast a 3X raise?
Thanks ahead of time:) |
Position and table related.
Posted Wed Jan 24, 2007 9:47 am GMT by BigSlick34
hum, very early, or verylate. Both please:) I only play in 6$ tournies or lower.
Posted Wed Jan 24, 2007 9:50 am GMT by LeafsFan1122
Stack sizes and blinds are needed too
Posted Wed Jan 24, 2007 11:01 am GMT by MrDarling
In tourney if your stack is big enough compare to the blinds you can use them as a semi bluff while attempting blinds steal. From early position, I'd might limp if the table is very passive or simply toss them away.
if you raise and someone calls you can easily be dominated
If you limp and someone does raise, you either call out of position with a marginal hand (bad move) or lose the initial investment..
btw. I suck at tourney's .
Posted Wed Jan 24, 2007 1:05 pm GMT by ninetensuited
if your in late position and no one has entered the pot, i would put in a 3 or 4 bb raise here and then put a continuation bet in on the flop. but thats just me being uber aggressive
Posted Wed Jan 24, 2007 2:57 pm GMT by vyni
As suggested, it's all realtive to the play conditions.
Tourney, if you have a chip lead, you often play more aggressively to push the smaller stacks around. If the table's real tight, again aggression pays off. Loose table, tighten up. If you're the big stack on the loose table... depends on situation.
Playing marginal hands: position is uber important. You can play them from late position if you can get decent odds to call in preflop. Post flop/turn/river, your late position enables you to get an idea what the earlier positions are playing with. Many times, there will be a weak flop, little or no action around the table to you, and you can just take the pot with a decent bet (I'll often bark out 75/100% of pot if I feel the table is weak).
3x bb raise, I use it a lot, and I stay consistent with my betting patterns most of the time so that I don't give any info/indication of what my hands are. If you're going to play an 'iffy' hand from an early position though, I'ld just call the bb, as you have zero knowledge of whats going to be coming behind you. If you call bb and mid/late position fires in a big preflop bet, you're often better off to lay it down. If you got in for a decent price and the flop does hit you, you're in a great position to slow play the hand against fishies. You said these were the $6 tournies, so the fishies are almost certainly there.
That ep call of the bb is impacted by your stack size too. If you're a shorter stack close to the bubble, you'ld better just throw the hand away as the other stacks have the positions to bully you with.
imho.
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