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telboy
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Silver Level
Could someone please tell me what is the best strategy to play the double or nothing tournaments on poker stars.
Thanks
Telboy
Thanks
Telboy
I have once again given these a chance. I have been cashing in about 70% of these, so I think I have a pretty firm grasp on strategy. I just want to make sure that I am using the correct approach. When you say "steal", you are talking mid to late game with 6-7 players left and blinds around 100/200 or higher. With stack sizes relative to blind, we are still talking shove/fold strategy here, correct? So steal attempts should still be made with stregth of hand, and shoved PF?
Steal shoves (assuming that this includes value shoves) should begin at 50/100 (assuming the standard Stars structure) depending on your stack size, position, and how tight remaining villain calling ranges are.
-The shorter you are relative to the blinds, the wider you can shove
-The tighter remaining villains are, the wider you can shove
-The less villains remaining in the hand there are, the wider you can shove
-The more even villain stack sizes are, the wider you can shove (another way to state this is that if there are super short stacks that are about to blind out, play "uber tight")
+1.Steal shoves (assuming that this includes value shoves) should begin at 50/100 (assuming the standard Stars structure) depending on your stack size, position, and how tight remaining villain calling ranges are.
-The shorter you are relative to the blinds, the wider you can shove
-The tighter remaining villains are, the wider you can shove
-The less villains remaining in the hand there are, the wider you can shove
-The more even villain stack sizes are, the wider you can shove (another way to state this is that if there are super short stacks that are about to blind out, play "uber tight")
+1.
Oh don't steal to much, they will pick up on it and start shoving on you.
Only try stealing when it's folded to you.
Stealing may not work if you have a loose player they will call.
Yeah, I tried chatting with you during the game last night but you kept ignoring me .
I had been playing the $1 and $5 DoN's, and have quickly realized that the variance at $5 is far less than at $1. I was cashing in 60% of the $1 and I have cashed in 86% of the $5. So now that I have built up my BR some, I think I'm going to make the $5 my regular game, and I might take a stab at a $10 here and there. Actually, I played on $10 game this morning and cashed in that one too. I am finding that the reg's are fairly predictable and can be easily exploited because they operate under the same thinking that you do.
But one is inevitably going to make a mistake and either push when weak or call when behind, and it's pretty simple to ride it out once the table is down to 7.
I was thinking the same thing about grinding. Points should be fairly easy to come by, and rewards should be pretty frequent. I like it.
Trust me. I agree that I have been running ridiculously hot at the $5 DoN. I think part of that has to do with the fact that wins and losses at this level matter significantly more to me than at the $1 level. I fully expect my ROI and placing % to drop over a large sample size. But I am quickly learning that the $1 and $5 DoN are very beatable and will show me a profit long term if I continue to play my best game.
Now, I fully understand what you are saying about playing with fish and playing with regs. At the same time, at this stage in my career, I have not scouted the levels above where I play at to find out who is a regular and who is not. I am assuming that EVERYONE is, so that i'm playing my best game at these events all of the time.
I guess that my philosophy is that I don't need to finish the event in the chip lead, I just need to not get knocked out. So, nitty play is the way that I go until I see a steal opportunity to exploit so that I don't have the blinds eat me. I would rather have nitty players at the table than loose callers, so that my blind steals have value. And this is another reason why I believe that I am having more success at the $5 than the $1. Not saying that fish aren't +EV, because they are (I still have profitable placing % and ROI against the fish), but they are also more risky to play against because they play EVERYTHING.
OK. Now that we are talking a little bit deeper about game play scenarios, here is how I attack a table in these events.
1) I know my table position and my own image at all times. I won't make a shove with a marginal holding when in position if I have made multiple steal attempts recently. Conversely, I will shove any type of connected cards when in position and I have been sitting quiet for a period of time. There are obvious psychological reasons behind these decisions.
2) I know through observation what players are apt to shove, and what players are apt to make weak calls when they think that they can limp. When I have any above marginal holding, I will attack these limpers when i'm in position and either force a fold or a weak call because they are committed.
3) If I am one of the larger stacks at the table, I will make shove attempts at any given opportunity (unopened pot while i'm in position) with ATC against a small and crippled stack. They are in a position where both decisions are -EV for them.
The scenario you mentioned above is exactly what I try to avoid in my own play, but wait for to play out at the end of the event. It is almost like clockwork that with 7 remaining there are still weak limpers that will allow themselves to get eaten alive by hands just like the one above. But, it is good talking theory with you, because by no means do I think my game is where it could be, and you are opening my eyes to at least different possibilities that I could see in game play.
If your not winning 75 % of the time