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Porsche Night
Tonight is the night. On the good side it is a limit contest which I do better in. On the bad side Empire started promoting it everywhere and it has ballooned to 500+ people. Wish me luck! If you have played large scale limit contests: Do you play aggresive early to try and build a stack, or wait until the blinds are higher and get all aggro on them?
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I've never played one with more than a couple hundred people, but my strategy is to just play it like I'm playing my normal limit ring game while the table I'm at is full and the blinds are low. In a 20 or 30 man SNG, the table gets shorthanded at a point where the blinds are up and you can start to be aggressive. I imagine, you are going to be playing against a bigger field than that, but that's how I would play anyway.
If you happen to get some "top ten hands" or limp in and catch a set during the early going, you'll get ammo for later. But don't hurt yourself by trying to get cute while the bets are small and people are willing to make calls they won't make later. You'll nickel and dime yourself to death. It's better to be patient and lose blinds for the first hour of the tourney, rather than push with crap cards and kill your chances. You probably know this, so Good Luck! I'm stoned. |
#3
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This may be completely wrong, but in large limit tourneys, I play nice and right and let my premium hands build my stack early on. I find the people who are pushing, being super aggressive, only cost themselves a lot of chips.
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True, if your patient and a bit lucky those top hands will come along before you get short stacked. Otherwise you have to change your style and build up your chips.
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Results
Well.. I am not going to be driving a Porsche anytime soon. I did pretty well but not super. I ended up 128th out of 500. I guess that is a fair showing. I was doing well and was above average when I overplayed AK a little and went down to a smaller stack size. The blinds were so high I ended up basically deciding to play my next AKo to the bitter end. I raise pre-flop, and get 1 caller. Nice. The flop misses me totally. She checks. So I bet. We are talking substantial money here now. The next card misses. She checks. I bet again! Either I am way ahead or way behind right now. The river is a 10, I am all in, and she flips over 9-10o for the rivered winner! Umm.. yeah, way to go out. I might have overplayed the AKo again but the blinds were 200/400 I think and I had about $1400 left. It was getting near the now or never point. Any comments?
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hey
If she was checking after the flop I probolly would of checked right with her until the end. Its real hard to push people out of pots in limit expecially when the blinds are still low. Other then that good job! |
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Given the size of the blinds
A check on the flop shows weakness, and she'd be likely to bet first instead, forcing you to call or fold A/K, which you can't really do at this point. Betting first at gives you a chance to win it right there.
With blinds that high, and her not raising, you pretty much have to go for it from there on in. An A/K on the river, and you'd have been looking good! |
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hey
I disagree, but thats what the forum is all about I suppose not sure if Id want to put my tornament life on the line in LIMIT tornament. I could see if I could push all in on the flop but you probolly wernt all in until the river. |
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Kinda hadda..
The blinds were 1/3 of my stack. I think I was pretty much either going to wait and get blinded down to a point where it would be very difficult to come back and win, or wait for the best hand I could find and hope. I was pretty much all in by the turn bet. I could have checked down with her but that would have shown weakness and to be honest she should have folded. I do not think I played this poorly, it just did not work out. Tourneys are a mix of playing the best you can and getting some luck. Today was not my lucky day.
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#10
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ok
in no way am I saying you played it poorly and yes she should of layed it down, unless her odds where good all depends on her stack compared to yours if hers was alot more then yes she should of called you down at the chance of eliminating you. If you where about even or she only had slight advantage then she should of layed down. But you are right you do need luck and make the correct decisions to win one. |
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