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Tournament Management
2009-07-19 23:04:54
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Tournament management : knowing when to gamble it up vs. understanding when you can fold QQ/AK. Rhythm and pace, knowing when to speed up and slow down. Knowing when to practice avoidance vs. looking for a showdown. Understanding your hands equity vs. a players hand range. It is strange how I remember laying down big hands more than I recall making straight flushes. How many times do you remember laying down AK pre? Have you ever laid down Kings or Aces pre? I am sure you have laid down Queens preflop, right? The reason I am mentioning this is the number of mistakes I see deep in tournaments. I have been at many a table with hundreds of hands on multiple players and one of these players will go crazy versus a total nit's three bet. I wonder how could this guy not realize the nit hasn't seen a flop in over 100 hands? I think that at the lower stakes there are a high percentage of players who just have no idea of how there hands play versus a particular hand range. Tournament management is definitely style dependent and I am not going to get into the specifics as I see them. I think it is important for players to develop a sense of game theory that will be dependent to their play and logic style. A great exercise for any player is to imagine scenarios where they could fold Aces, Kings or Queens pre flop. When is it profitable to call with any two? When is the best times to check call with top pair top kicker? Rebuys with 6 players all in, what are you gonna do? Imagine extreme situations and what you would do if you encountered that situation. When you find yourself sitting right in the middle of the very spot you imagined you will confidently make your play. |
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Posted On: 2010-09-01 05:39:52
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tsifreak Says:
Folding KK preflop is non existant in my game. Your usually up against a big preflop raise that you will need to remember and I just keep an eye out of an Ace to hit on the flop and pay attention to the preflop raiser to see how he handles the flop. If he comes out with a min raise with out anything big on the board I know I can take down the hand with a reraise. At this point I like to take control of the hand if I feel its beeing taken away from me with my agreessive play I will fold all depends on the situation and the flop.
Most players dont play AA as hard as they would with KK.
If there is no Ace on the flop I will play my KK very hard and go from there usually the hand is over after the turn.
Posted On: 2009-11-10 20:02:13
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k9_scruz Says:
Examples would be great. More posts, more articles, more involvement, would be better.
Folding Aces? 9 table SnG, down to the bubble, your covered by the BB (chip leader) and you are currently in 2nd, you raise from UTG, everyone else folds, he goes all in, and you have pocket rockets.
Don't you think the other two players are pissing in their drawers to see the outcome of this? Suddenly I look down, and the aces changed to 23o in my unfocussed eyes. Still - I'm shoving... can't help myself.
Where are you Hokum?
Posted On: 2009-08-19 01:01:13
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MIKE6 Says:
I have a BIG problem making PF laydowns with big pairs;then I went very deep in a satellite where the winner gets almost all the money. Those laydowns got A LOT easier. You gonna blow you entire satellite or big chip lead when AA will lose to 77 1 time in 5? I hope not! GL
Posted On: 2009-08-07 16:50:56
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Ceri_g Says:
Jay, I agree with you, but I also like the questions that Curtis has raised. Sometimes it is better to ask questions and leave us to sort out the answers.
But..... a few examples would be helpful as well.
Posted On: 2009-07-29 03:56:52
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hokumfool Says:
I give concrete examples in my videos (you've seen me lay down AA, AK, ect.) The article is to inspire you to start seeing the big picture, so you will hit the top three and not go busto when it is not necessary.
GG GL
Posted On: 2009-07-24 13:08:48
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Jay094 Says:
could you give examples instead of just hypothetical situations?
Posted On: 2009-07-23 15:42:56
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