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I'm wondering if anyone here uses this style with any success? You know who they are, the all-in guy 1st and 2nd hands into the tourny. If you win you have a big chip lead but do you know how to play with that lead? Do you try to be a bully or tighten up and pick your spots? I don't agree with this but it never fails, every tourny (freeroll, play or real) there they are sliding all of their chips in. To me it doesn't make sense to bet your tourny life for $15-30 in blinds.
 
Jesus Lederer

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I don´t use this style because i think it´s not a winner style. You said that that style never fails, but that´s not true. If a player goes all in in the first hand and wins, you have to remember that also the other player did the same thing and lost. I have never seen those plays in real money tourneys, because i think that there all players knows that they have something to lose, and in freeroll you have nothing to lose and something to win.
You said something important: do those players know what to do farther in the tourney? do they know another strategie than going all in?. The answer is very obvious (in most of the cases), but if you don´t believe me try to see like 3 players on a tourney going all in in the first hand, and then follow them along the tourney. Tell me in wich place do they finish (maybe i´m wrong and they place in the money, but i don´t think so).
 
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I don't agree with that style either. The only time I would go all in prefolp on the first hand is with AA. I don't like getting kicked out of tournaments early. I hate when I have a good starting hand and people start going all in first hand. Most of the time the players who play that way, don't last long.
 
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Jesus Lederer said:
I don´t use this style because i think it´s not a winner style. You said that that style never fails, but that´s not true. If a player goes all in in the first hand and wins, you have to remember that also the other player did the same thing and lost. I have never seen those plays in real money tourneys, because i think that there all players knows that they have something to lose, and in freeroll you have nothing to lose and something to win.
You said something important: do those players know what to do farther in the tourney? do they know another strategie than going all in?. The answer is very obvious (in most of the cases), but if you don´t believe me try to see like 3 players on a tourney going all in in the first hand, and then follow them along the tourney. Tell me in wich place do they finish (maybe i´m wrong and they place in the money, but i don´t think so).
I didn't say this system never fails, I said that it never fails that someone slides their chips in. I never play this way as I see it as a weak style but I was interested if someone is successful at it because I see alot of clowns doing it.
 
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I usually have at least a couple of sites open and often join whatever freerolls are available on the sites i'm not concentrating on. At those i often go all in first decent hand i get. If i loose its ok, if i win, i start moving my attention to that tournament and playing the stack ive won.

Those open freerolls offer some cash, for sure. But i'm not all that excited about playing 10.000 people for a 100-200 USD win (the prices on Bet365 and Ladbrokes which i often keep open without actually playing). At the same time, getting an edge for that money makes it a bit more interesting :)
 
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cranck said:
I usually have at least a couple of sites open and often join whatever freerolls are available on the sites i'm not concentrating on. At those i often go all in first decent hand i get. If i loose its ok, if i win, i start moving my attention to that tournament and playing the stack ive won.

Those open freerolls offer some cash, for sure. But i'm not all that excited about playing 10.000 people for a 100-200 USD win (the prices on Bet365 and Ladbrokes which i often keep open without actually playing). At the same time, getting an edge for that money makes it a bit more interesting :)
Yeah I agree. Sometimes its worth going all in early if you are not that interested in the tournament, sometimes it pays off and if it doesnt then who cares cos you wasnt that interested anyway!

I was playing Ladborkes last night and went all in first hand cos I was playing Absolute and pokerstars. One the first hand with A5 and flopped an Ace, river A so won with trips.

2nd hand went all in again (cant remember hand) and won again so had 11,000 chips after 2 hands! I concentrated a bit more and finished in 501st place out of 3500. And finished 69th/2000 on Absolute
 
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