Do Cheap Tournaments Have Many Crazy players?

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My bankroll does not allow for expensive tournaments, so I'm playing very cheap tournaments, MTTs of 1.10 2.20 ...
yesterday in Bounty Builder 1.10 entered about 5 thousand games, leaving only 200 games, I with 18 BB open preflop flop of 2x with JJ, table turns in fold until the small that goes all of 25BB with 67th and ends up hitting A737K me eliminating the tournament ...
in my opinion the villain's move was horrible, and I see a lot of it in cheap tournaments and I'm pretty much eliminated on account of that. Do you think I should change tournaments? What do you think about the villain's move? my bount was at 0.75 :confused:
 
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There are two types of players. one who takes every game seriously whether it is a freeroll or a high paid tourney. They stick to basic ABC poker with advanced tricks. But there are maniacs also who play the game as gambling and according to their gut feelings. They say "oh it is a micro buy game...Just go allin"
 
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Yes the "All in players" going all in almost evry time. Yust avoid them, play tight in the beginning in the middle litlle bit more loose. Try to steal blinds!
 
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You got your whole stack in a more than 4 to 1 favorite.

Good execution but bad result - assuming you are playing within your bankroll, you don't need to change anything, you should steady on and not let disappointing results affect you.

You have to survive spots like this and win coinflips to do well in big field tournaments, but if you keep at it, it will happen eventually and more than pay you back for the bad beats.

I think you will see more of this in bounty tournaments: the small blind had you covered and decided it was a good spot to re-steal but obviously it wasn't a good play... then again why would you want your opponents to play well?


Good luck to you! :D
 
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Bounty tournament and rebuy tournaments are much looser than freezeouts. If you would prefer tighter opponents try playing deepstack tourneys..
 
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As well in the small tournaments very often move what to do I don't know.
 
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You can't avoid these kind of players at the table. Just keep playing at your bankroll stakes, you can win more tournaments in the long run.
 
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Yes the "All in players" going all in almost evry time. Yust avoid them, play tight in the beginning in the middle litlle bit more loose. Try to steal blinds!

Not sure about trying to steal the blinds in low buy-ins. Most of the times you'll have someone who calls/shoves with crap that hits on the flop. Especially in KOs and before latereg is over. Even though they cannot rebuy, it's latereg is a good indicator for when the tourney actually starts.
 
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your opponent is not crazy
He ventured and his risk was justified
with connectors there is always a chance to play a lot and lose a lot

of course connectors are very good, of the same suit then even better, I am not devaluing these cards, but in my opinion, it rains against a UTG reise, almost reaching the final of the tournament is crazy, unless you are very deep stack.
at least I see it that way, I spent 4 hours in a tournament to risk losing more than half of my chips and my life in the tournament with only connectors ... I would not do
 
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Suited connectors have approx 9-1 chance of hitting a monster by the river. That's enough for me to justify raising preflop from late position or calling an early raise. Usually you miss the flop and have to muck/bluff but when you crack aces it feels really good..
 
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My bankroll does not allow for expensive tournaments, so I'm playing very cheap tournaments, MTTs of 1.10 2.20 ...
yesterday in Bounty Builder 1.10 entered about 5 thousand games, leaving only 200 games, I with 18 BB open preflop flop of 2x with JJ, table turns in fold until the small that goes all of 25BB with 67th and ends up hitting A737K me eliminating the tournament ...
in my opinion the villain's move was horrible, and I see a lot of it in cheap tournaments and I'm pretty much eliminated on account of that. Do you think I should change tournaments? What do you think about the villain's move? my bount was at 0.75 :confused:
the villain's was Cheepleader??
 
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