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I've just started playing some limit tourneys. Mainly freerolls but I've also started on some limit ring games too. What i would like to know is this.; are the tourneys always such a donk fest?
At the beginning players go in with anything, maxing out bets. There seems to be no rhyme nor reason to their betting. I'm at the point just to sit out the first 15 minutes and let the fools take themselves out in a frenzy of mindless betting.
And when the blinds start getting higher you still get some lucky idiot playing but that's the one who pads my chip count. It seems the real play doesn't start until the third hour.
Anyone else run into this?
 
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In general I think you've summed it up very well for the for the freeroll tournies from what I've found. I don't play limit nearly as much as NL, but there does seem to be a lot of donking going on in limit (maybe not more or less per se, but different maybe). My guess is that many of these players are converts from NL and they don't understand the concepts, odds, etc, well enough. They just know that they can't bet as much in one bet like they could in NL, so they just keep raising. Stay tight early, for sure and let them kill each other. It is always easier to get the chips off of a big stack donk than it is to get them from five average stack donks. Let them eat their own then go after the big one.
 
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Yep thats about the size of it at those levels.
Those freeroll/low limit MTT's are a thankless task for the first few levels or so but when the blinds raise to say 50/100 or so its time to get working on the donks.
After all, they are in fact doing your job for you to a certain extent, let them max raise pre and post flop, turn and river.
Keep a good eye on them though as you will need to know what has been going on for when you decide to take action, say when the blinds are 50/100 or 100/200.
Some of these players will adjust their game accordingly when the blinds go up but you will still find many that now think they are invincible and continue to make terrible errors, they are your new friends, while you have been shaking your head at their abysmal play so far, now its time to embrace them and take their chips.
Let the donks win the early pots for 200 while maxing it out constantly, you want the 600 to 1000 pots on say levels 3 or 4.
It should set you up nicely for the run in.
 
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Okay thanks. I just can't believe they allow players like that around. I feel almost guilty for taking their chips, (almost but not quite:D ). It is amazing the level of bad play. I thought regular freerolls were bad but limit ones take the cake.
 
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