Monday, September 1, 2008
Tournament
Quick announcement. I played in the $80k guaranteed tournament last night and finished in the money. Finished 190 out of 2500 people who entered. Not bad. I won an entry by playing a satellite using my VIP points. I won $90, which puts me back on track. I definitely recommend playing the tournaments using your VIP points. Might as well unless you are trying to buy merchandise. I will say that these tournaments are wild, loose, aggressive games. I routinely witnessed people pushing their whole stack to win relatively small blinds, and then multiple people calling them. It's crazy because everytime someone shoved pre-flop, with no raises in front of them, they usually had a small pocket pair or big cards. I'm trying to understand why they make this play. One dude towards the end of the tournament would risk his whole stack each time it was his turn if nobody raised before him. His name was Maniac something. Fitting. I waited for premium hands before making any plays. It seemed to work for me.
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Nice, grats on finishing in the money. I'm going to stick to 6 man rings for now, I know torney's are really different from 6 rings and I don't want to take my focus off 6 man till I'm consistently winning and at this point that is not the case. I'm not doing bad but not consistently beating the game either.
Usually, when people are in mid-late position and push with with high cards and/or low pairs it's to get everyone else off the hand who may otherwise call with a marginal hand because their in position...which usually means the BB (and sometimes SB) will call because of pot odds with marginal hands. Position plays get pretty important late in a tourney to keep your stack up and steal blinds. So, a lot of people will play like that even when the blinds are low to make it look like they have good hands so later they can steal some bigger blinds/antes if needed. But, every once in a while, they'll get caught with their hand in the cookie jar.
Good job on going deep!
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