advice re first big tourney

#1 19-08-2007, 7:07 PM

hello all, new to this forum. I have won entry to next sunday's million on poker player. Never actually played in a big tourney like it. Any tips welcome

#2 19-08-2007, 7:13 PM

Rest well before the tournament. Get rid of distractions. For the first couple hours, fold fold fold and watch the habits of others. Take notes on players. Play your postition. Be ready to have periods of agressive betting when you feel the table is tight or weak. Good Luck

#3 19-08-2007, 8:01 PM

From tonight's Party 300k

***** Hand History for Game 6251191765 *****
NL Texas Hold'em Trny: 35081095 Level: 6 Blinds(200/400) - Sunday, August 19, 14:46:53 ET 2007
Table $300K Guaranteed Sunday (1117225) Table #23 (Real Money)
Seat 3 is the button
Total number of players : 10
Seat 4: PocketZoros ( 20,330 )
Seat 6: Arkan64 ( 8,790 )
Seat 7: tgu1978 ( 15,160 )
Seat 8: netix ( 6,340 )
Seat 9: Irexes ( 10,129 )
Seat 10: herve1951 ( 12,610 )
Seat 3: alessio6666 ( 5,948 )
Seat 5: Tolstyak_K ( 9,010 )
Seat 1: Vulkanpoldi ( 7,030 )
Seat 2: buckal111 ( 13,530 )
Trny: 35081095 Level: 6
Blinds(200/400)
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to Irexes [ 6h Kh ]
Arkan64 is all-In [8,790]
tgu1978 folds
netix is all-In [6,340]
Irexes folds
herve1951 folds
Vulkanpoldi folds
buckal111 folds
alessio6666 folds
PocketZoros folds
Tolstyak_K folds
** Dealing Flop ** [ 7c, Jh, 3c ]
** Dealing Turn ** [ 8c ]
** Dealing River ** [ 5d ]
Arkan64 shows [ Qs, As ]high card Ace.
netix shows [ Ts, Th ]a pair of Tens.
Arkan64 wins 2,450 chips from side pot #1 with high card, Ace.
netix wins 13,280 chips from the main pot with a pair of Tens.

and from another thread -

Quote:

The standard varies between the very good and the worst you will find anywhere. Later on in them it gets a lot better as the dead money leaves,
but in the first two hours the trick it to spot the fish and bag em without losing your stack to the sharks. The guy next to me doubled up early then bust out.
He was in the bottom 1% on OPR with the lowest rank I've seen and a 2% in the money.


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