Re: Update on urgent help please post re tournie
- From: "Unsteady Eddy" <horsey.bird@xxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 15 Dec 2005 23:50:23 GMT
Apologies for double post. Thought I had deleted the first one.
"Unsteady Eddy" <horsey.bird@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Well, first of all thanks for all your help in earlier thread when I
> qualified for this satellite.
>
> I entered the tournie and was having trash hand after trash hand,
> eventually managed to double up but still ridiculously short stacked.
> Somehow clawed my way onto the final table - nearly bottom stack. Then a
> few good hands changed fortunes, suddenly found myself top stack - no idea
> how that happened, was not in my plan. Places 1 to 3 qualified for the
> million dollar tournie but received no cash - I have only been playing for
> 3 months so was really not ready to participate in this - would be eaten
> alive. A nifty bit of poker suicide (it is harder than it looks) meant
> that I finished in 4th place - exactly where I wanted to be. For a scary
> moment however I really thought I would not be able to avoid qualifying
> for the million.
>
> Needless to say very thrilled, especially as I won $411 dollar, not a bad
> days work for a newbie.
>
> I do find tournaments easier than cash games, this was discussed a number
> of threads ago. For me I think it is having a clear fixed end goal -
> getting onto the final table and then beating people. More structured
> than cash games.
>
> I do feel however that my technique could do with a huge amount of
> refinement. At the start of the tournament was playing very tight, I do
> normally anyway as surviving here is a key thing however had no hands
> worthy of gambling on, I let other people remove each other and took the
> opportunity to grab some chips with the one good hand I had. Was short
> stacked and a number of the big stacks were very aggressive, this meant
> that betting preflop was pointless, I either had a hand I was prepared to
> go All in with or not. At one point when the blinds were huge and I had
> about 8 blinds left I was forced to go all in with something I was not
> happy with but it was the best cards I had seen in the last 2 hours (I was
> predominantly getting cards like 57o), luck favoured me and did not get
> kicked out - split the pot with another player. That was luck but would
> have been out in a few rounds anyway if I had not made the most of the
> first high card I had had for ages. It was suited even though the kicker
> was horrendous.
>
> I am concious that my tournie play seems to involve an awful lot of all in
> with premium hands but not much else. If you are short stacked or at the
> beginning a few bets preflop which amount to nothing on the flop can cause
> harm. Later on once I have acquired a stack I find myself just bullying
> people out as raising minimum generally involves a bet of around 2K.
> Whilst that is good the all in does require some luck even though you can
> help it on the way by good choice of cards, the bullying is useful but
> does not involve so much skill as people keep folding.
>
> Thoughts?
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