salim271
Legend
Silver Level
I know this is an almost useless freeroll to some people considering you only have 300 chips to start with... but honestly its easier to cash than in the ferguson as long as you can get into a safer chipstack early on. My strategy in this tounament is simple,
At first: Play tight, dont get into 3 way pots or more, try to shove with your best hands and know that your opponents will shove with almost any face cards and not worry about kicker. Try to get over 1000 chips earlier because this will allow you to play tight through the growing blinds without losing a lot of chips. This is the hardest part, winning three all ins in a row is hard even if you did have aces, its also hard to get a read on your opponents since people are shoving every five seconds and u shift tables alot.
Once that first hump is out of the way, its pretty easy. Play tight still, look for good spots to double up and wait out the shoving madness. Your stack should grow with the blinds, a good way to play at this point is to go after the short stacks with hands like A9+, KJ, KT, they sound weak i know, but if you're putting up only 300 in a 1500 stack its not that bad.
The blinds and antes will eventually will catch up to you no matter what stack you have. Before they become too high, pick spots and steal steal steal! This is one thing the DD freeroll has over the ferguson, antes! Once i was down to 300 chips, shoved my ante and blind in and got up to 1500, shoved again from UTG, then again and was back up to like 5000 chips. People dont want to call, they want to fold into the money, this will not work.
When stealing, go after the medium stacks, big stacks with 20K will call you down, dont go after the short stacks with trash like 37o with position because they will call you down with K7, K2, etc, and be ahead. You do not want to have 5000 chips reduced to 3000, it will reduce your ability to steal.
Stealing is the key to this freeroll and the ferguson, its just easier here because 200 cash. 1 hour and 15 minutes and you get a dollar... its great if you dont want to pay for the DD but not much else.
At first: Play tight, dont get into 3 way pots or more, try to shove with your best hands and know that your opponents will shove with almost any face cards and not worry about kicker. Try to get over 1000 chips earlier because this will allow you to play tight through the growing blinds without losing a lot of chips. This is the hardest part, winning three all ins in a row is hard even if you did have aces, its also hard to get a read on your opponents since people are shoving every five seconds and u shift tables alot.
Once that first hump is out of the way, its pretty easy. Play tight still, look for good spots to double up and wait out the shoving madness. Your stack should grow with the blinds, a good way to play at this point is to go after the short stacks with hands like A9+, KJ, KT, they sound weak i know, but if you're putting up only 300 in a 1500 stack its not that bad.
The blinds and antes will eventually will catch up to you no matter what stack you have. Before they become too high, pick spots and steal steal steal! This is one thing the DD freeroll has over the ferguson, antes! Once i was down to 300 chips, shoved my ante and blind in and got up to 1500, shoved again from UTG, then again and was back up to like 5000 chips. People dont want to call, they want to fold into the money, this will not work.
When stealing, go after the medium stacks, big stacks with 20K will call you down, dont go after the short stacks with trash like 37o with position because they will call you down with K7, K2, etc, and be ahead. You do not want to have 5000 chips reduced to 3000, it will reduce your ability to steal.
Stealing is the key to this freeroll and the ferguson, its just easier here because 200 cash. 1 hour and 15 minutes and you get a dollar... its great if you dont want to pay for the DD but not much else.