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Tourney hand - comments appreciated!
oneill1970:
This is all so much help - when I first posted I expected maybe one or two replies, but this is awesome for my first hand post (I think!). I"ll be playing another low buyin online tourney on Saturday, I hope, and, with all these ideas swimming around my head, it"ll be a great experience, win or lose. I already feel a better player. Hopefully I am!
On a similar note, I"m currently reading Poker Tournament Formula, mainly because it deals with fast online structures, but I also have the following in my library - would one of these be better to get into, especially for a beginner, especially online? Bear in mind that I"m just trying to ramp up my tourney knowhow while I build my skills and bankroll at cash primarily.
Sklansky - Tournament Poker (have read this once, a while back)
Harrington on Hold "Em (have all 3 - relevant for online?)
Full Tilt Strategy Guide (some say it"s very good, but I want to walk before I can run)
McEvoy - Tournament Poker
McEvoy - How To Win No-Limit Hold Em Tournaments
Nelson - Kill Everyone
Anything else...? Phil Gordon? Jon Vorhaus?
Once again, thanks so much - the response has been amazing (and everybody"s been kind enough not to call me an idiot! Yet...)
noble1:
--- Quote ---Sklansky - Tournament Poker (have read this once, a while back)
Harrington on Hold "Em (have all 3 - relevant for online?)
Full Tilt Strategy Guide (some say it"s very good, but I want to walk before I can run)
McEvoy - Tournament Poker
McEvoy - How To Win No-Limit Hold Em Tournaments
Nelson - Kill Everyone
Anything else...? Phil Gordon? Jon Vorhaus?
--- End quote ---
Lee Nelsons kill everyone is the most relevant to the buy in you are playing imo.
starting out in these low buy in mtts is tough as you still need fairly good reading skills to do well consistently.Just keep it tight ish.play straight forward poker and do not bluff to much and every hand you are not in try to put people on hands all the time,as you get better your reads will do so as you practice them all the time...
[no watching porn,no watching footie on tv when you are not involved in a hand etc etc practice reading others ;D]
tonyj444:
I haven"t read most of those but would definitely reccommend Harrington. Superb book.
Honeybadg:
Instant all in for me ... do you really want to be in the hand ... fold is fine but feels like you are trying to limp to the money.
All in might get called by all kinds of hands that get you into a coin flip situation ... plus weaker aces (likely suited - who cares?) which you are miles ahead of.
If you are up against JJ,QQ,KK,AA you are in a lot of trouble but you are anyway after most flops ... you will play if you hit the J ... and lose to all of them.
If you fold after the flop you are in the big blind next hand ... and likely will play with a worse hand with no fold equity for all your chips.
AQ and AK are mightmare bad outcomes ... but assuming you are against 7 other players the time ... I think you have to push ...
Double the chips then just fold it and wait.
Harrington is where to start I expect ...
Louis
Amethyst:
--- Quote from: oneill1970 on January 11, 2009, 08:07:51 AM ---
I"m relatively new to tourneys, just playing one a week to dip my toe in he water, so would appreciate any advice as to what I did wrong here, or might have done later. Normally I"m a 6max LHE player.
Online tourney, 16 players left of 66, 10 paid. Blinds are 100/200. I have about 1,800 in chips and am UTG.
I am dealt :as: jh - I come in for 500. (Should I have pushed all-in at this stage? -
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was this a LHE torny (you don"t actually say)? If so, can u push all-in from utg ? Surely you raised the max (200 + blinds = 500, so now 800 in the pot) so no real fold equity to anyone with a decent stack + half decent cards. Beats me why villain didn"t rr to 1600 to try to isolate you.
Am i wrong, i don"t play limit ???
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