My Biggest Tournament

Over a week ago I won a ticket to the 40,000 GP Freezeout on IPoker. This is by far the biggest entry fee tournament and prize fund I have ever been in and I'm looking for tips and advice from people who have played high level tournaments like this.

How can amateurs like me beat the pros and place as high as possible? Any theories on how I should play a tournament like this? Any tips or thoughts would be really appreciated!

I'll update on my progress when I'm playing the tournament tomorrow, wish me luck!

Wow 40k game nice ticket, GL GL GL!...anyone can win, your chances are as good as any pro.

Keep us updated!

Just play the same way but think more as a perfectionist..take ur time and breathe.staying focused is all that matters

Win flips. Profit.

(Embrace the variance)

Best of luck. Think of it as a standard tourney you've played many times before.

While the stacks are deep ( I'd guess they will be deeper than you're used to; if so, they will be deep for longer), you can mostly play your own game. One exception is not to open-limp, if that's normal for you. You only have to do that once or twice for the good players to see you as someone who's playing way higher than usual, and to start targeting you.

Try to figure out who the good players are, and also the weak ones, and each person's style. Also, look at how you think you stack up. Did you get a strong table where most of the players are clearly better than you, or are you able to play with most of them?

If you feel able to play, then play. If you feel over-matched, you can play tight for as long as you're not under stack pressure. If you happen to catch a hand or two at the right times, that can be quite a while. Or you can opt to play in a manner that's more reliant on the fall of the cards in order to reduce the effect of the opponents' skill advantage by trying to play bigger pots, being more willing to flip, etc.

You ^ can't be serious?

Good Luck OP!! Hope you run good & enjoy yourself in it.
Pretty sure it's 5,000chip stacks & 15min. blinds in that one, with blinds increasing slowly over the first levels. Lots of time to be patient. Not sure about advice.
Question: Did you win the entry via a satty on there? If so, which one? (was thinkin' of playing a satty for it this morning).

best o luck
advice: patience, i ran quite deep in a game yesterday, only played 2 hands an hour it seemed, usually all would fold to my raise or Id double up
i folded some good hands too-pick your hand(with position) and no weakness- get it in if you got the goods
it can be scary in big money games, but treat it is a small buyin or you may look like scared money...push hard when you're sure you have it
glglgl

Good luck...
Hope u run deep mate !!!
No no wait...Hope u WIN this thing !!!

thanks for all the well wishes lads really looking forward to it! i won a token through a special invite tournament but there were a good few sattelites running for it last i checked think they might be over by now though!

Good Luck to you! Just play solid hands in position and play them aggressive. Raise, Raise, Raise don't play scared if you run into a Pro play aggressive, don't give them a chance to take the pot from you. And don't make spite calls or just to see what they had calls if you think your beat fold.

overbet shove
flip a lot
run good

ez game

happy enough with how its going so far, sitting on about 6.2k, playing very tight early stages trying to get a read of the other players

You want some reads on players?
janina205 *noob, SNG 17games roi -92% avg bi $30
Drugez 500 mtt, roi +20% [$25]; 2,500 sng's roi-2% [$6]

fellaindunn, rookie, 74 mtt, roi-65% [$10]

nelsonrato MTT reg. 1,409 mtt's, roi+120% [$17] +$28k

jona##### only shows played 12 mtt, [$49 bi] +$4k (< placed 1st in the $10rb $4.3k, & 55th in this Tourney before)

Simonetony 467 mtt roi+58% [$12] +$3,250

MonkeySpank 196 mtt's, roi+85% [$48] +$8k

Boost 233 mtt roi 0% [$28] (< seems like a huge spazz, w 20bb's, rs's in EP w T6s & 'flats' a 3bet for 40% of his stack.. wtf?)

Hows it going so far mate?

Finish in Top4 in this & you've got your entry fee for the IrishOpen

Good Luck in it!!

wish i had read that earlier Poker Orifice! on a different table now, doing average enough on 5.5k chips at the moment, haven't really had any big hands yet so just maintaining at the moment!

Best of luck.

Lachance 24 mtt's, roi+159% [$60] +$2,400
touchmynuts 36 mtt, roi-70% [$136] -$3.5k
EPISODE 341 mtt, roi+22% [$22] +$1.7k
chs444 MTT reg. 2,840 mtt, roi+38% [$20] +$21k
pasqbing 169 mtt, roi-2% [$21] -$80
RedBall 102 mtt, roi+112% [$63] +$8k
retabretsam 12mtt roi+84% [$100] +$1k

but
too bad you just got moved... again lol. That's one of the things I don't like about iPoker - - you get moved around sooo f'n often in MTT's.

just moved tables the moment you literally posted that haha, could you tell me what you think of the players like ya did the first time? i'm still not too good with stats! thanks!

2410?

Need a make a few moves soon, gl.

not going too good on about 3.5k need chips soon!

just not hitting any decent hands at all :/

ah went out there, pushed with crap pocket 3s in late position lost my cool a bit, wasn't getting any good cards. went up against q a and was winning until the river hit a queen, was a good learning experience though! thanks for all the help and good wishes

Wait for some decent hands, don't treat them like regular players..

Understand what you're representing, use your image, and know they are very capable of any move at any time.

GL with the rest of your run!

Sorry to hear that, getting in a flip wasn't the worst thing you could do in these tournaments, nice job.

Darn, sorry to hear that you couldn't make a deep run in this tournament :[. Better luck on next tournies!!

That was a totally standard shove spot there with 33. Nothing wrong with that at all!!!! Getting it in first in LP w 33 on ~12bb's & getting called by player in blinds who happened to hold AQ & get there on the river. (folding there would've been real bad)
gg (was fun railin' ya for a bit there)

Unless you were at the bubble for the seats, I'd say it was close to a no-brainer to shove your 12BB with 33 when it was folded around to you in LP. Of course, when you get called, it'll be pretty wide, so you'll be slightly ahead on a flip or well behind to a higher pair. But when your stack is getting low, you can't wait long. Quite often, this means sticking it in and hoping it is a flip.

Too bad about not winning a seat. It seems like you may have learned a valuable lesson for the future though. The first time I played in the final satellite level for seats to a tournament package above $5k (coincidentally, it was also the Irish Open), I couldn't help but wonder if I'd be completely outclassed. Now, I know - as I assume you do - that even though the fields at this level are tougher than you're used to, you're not in completely over your head.

GG and take it as a lesson about higher buyings. They play a bit tougher but just stick to position and bet, bet,bet.

Pretty sure it wasn't a satty to the IrishOpen...
He was playing the $109 - $40Kguar. on iPoker (he'd won a seat to play it)