Kill Phil Experiment (this is long - sorry)

[Zybomb]

bdawg have you read The Poker Tournament Theory by Arnold Synder?

Im half way through the book, but it brings up a lot of tournament positional plays (to learn them, he even advised playing your hands blind for a few low buy in tournaments) then he incorperates your cards, and then your stack size. So far a very interesting read.

The basic principle was that

Preflop:

Positions 1-5: Fold
Position 6: If folded to you raise if not fold
Position 7: If folded to you raise if not fold
Position 8: If folded to you raise. If the pot is limped, then limp. Call any standard (3-4x BB) raise. Fold to large raises
SB: Fold unless folded around to you
BB: Check if limp pot, fold to all raise, if only the SB limps in raise

The key is to be likely last to act postflop in every circumstance.

Postflop goes as follows

If you are checked to bet.
If they bet, fold

If they check call and check the turn, bet again (sometimes all in)
If they check and raise then fold

He noted that this was for typical "fast" tournaments and not slow paced ones or cash games. He challenged you could likely get further in some tournaments playing this way than normally. After mastering the positional game, he then adds in the cards to the mix , as well as chip stacks. Interesting read thusfar

[Talking Poker]

That is interesting..... I kind of like the idea of playing blind (at least preflop), in some sort of sick way.

[bdawg31]

That does sound intersting - another good display of the power of position/aggression.

I am finding this interesting to do. If anything else - it is showing me how strong aggression can be. I won my first Sit N Go last night - i am not going to post each attempt individually - i wil post updates now and then if i keep doing this.

I had to adjust the HU strategy - which is to go all-in every hand. The problem being that (at least at UB) when we got HU - the blinds are pretty low compared to the stack sizes. So, me pushing every hand was not really putting pressure on the other guy - he could just sit and wait. So, when the blinds were 100/200 - i would raise to 1kish each time i was on the button (well 9 out of 10 times) and i woudl re-raise when he limped about 50% of the time. He would pop me once or twice and i would fold my garbage. I finally 'trapped' him with JJ - he pushed with A10 and somehow the JJ held up.