^^hurhurhur....ain't that the truth, bro? This is exactly why I've cut back on my cash-table plays and have decided to stick to playing SnGs mostly. Anyway, I didn't deposit a single loonie, bro. What I did is sell off roughly 3.5million of my playdough chips for $30 over about a period of 2weeks and I've been playing with that freeroll of sorts ever since....no joke.
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Rob;2479499 said:
You have to play looser in early tournament play IMO.
It is a catch 22 though. Do you go out nuts early? Or do you establish a tight image? I normally let the table decide that, i.e. cards getting dealt, etc. If after first 10-15 cards I haven't even got speculative hands to play such as
- Small Pairs
- Suited Connectors
- 1 Gap Suited Connectors
- Suited Aces
- Off-Suited Connectors
Then I am playing tight.
But all in all, when the blinds are low, play speculative hands trying to flop a big hand. Call standard size raises 2.5 to 4 the blinds with hands such as small pairs, suited connectors or limp with other hands, raising in early position with these hands too is good to mix play up.
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hehe. That's some excellent theorizing, bro.........That's the beauty of poker, though, you know? It's not all mechanical and there aren't a lot of inflexibly set standards or paths to always take, you know? It allows for a lot of expansive and unconventional playing styles.
The longer a tourney is (usually ones with 180 people or more), the more I'm apt to play tighter and attempt to build an image of being a clean, solid player who only comes into a pot with the perceived preflop nuts....I'll even show my hands on won pots, so long as the hand I've got adheres to my facade that I'm creating. But if it's a short, sped up tourney, then I'm playing just about every pot allowable (so long as the raise isn't bigger than 3-4x the B
. I'm sniffin' around and chasing just about everything out there that's possible to draw, you know?
My biggest flaw at the moment (aside from making calls with marginal hands out of position), is that I tilt like no other. It doesn't take much for me to come completely unglued and destruct in a seething ball of anger. This is why I'm glad that I'm infront of a screen, in a cyber table and not live because I think that I'd be in jail serving time for hard labour or in a grave somewhere by now rotting away if I was playing some in-the-flesh poker. I've punched a lot of walls and chucked countless of silverware and dishes outside of my window and into my backyard over the past month or so playing realdough poker, man.