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RamdeeBen
Legend
Silver Level
Hi guys, just like some advice. I'm unsure of weather or not it's just standard mtt varience, or if I'm playing bad and just not cutting it at larger field MTTs. I could well just be a bad player, I haven't ruled that out. However, I don't believe I'm much worse than the avg worse player(s) who seem to get deep in MTT's.
For example, most nights I'll give a $1 MTT a shot which usually draws in between 3000-6000 entrants. Often enough I can make the money and quite often have gone to the last 200 for example but still the cashing at these stakes is still very small for a 200th spot finish. I often see at my table so many large stacks who seem to all have like 50% VP$P, they will limp/raise or just play and call/fold to see flops and these guys seem to always have a few who actually reach the final table. At what stage is it time to loosen up? Like seriously? I can't seem to grasp it and like I say I don't know if it's standard varience or not.
I can do well in SnG Mtt's or smaller version MTT's with entrants ranging from 100-500. It's when it gets to the 1000's + I really start to struggle which making a FT. SnG 45/90/180 man MTT's I can like I say, quite often go deep reaching money and recently hitting some final tables in the mix especially if they are not turbos.
So does a standard 300 man MTT range of playing styles totally differ from a 5k entrant tournament? I know when to push in either of them I just don't seem to advance into the top scale of players in the larger tournaments so I'm wondering if tight play can work at these large MTT's..I can seem to do well like I say with small MTT's playing my "normal" game..
Any advice?
Thanks
EDIT: Just to add I've played maybe 200 of these larger MTT styles and the best I've gone is finished 11th in a facebook 10c with 6000k entrants lol. Terrible cash really so I know I did enough in that game but to be honest I did hit some cards too so could be variance in the others more than anything then again is 200+ MTT enough of a sample size?
I also managed to cash in a 1/4 million in like 4000th place lol out of 40k entrants so it can't be "that" bad? Then again I was really struggling when it became the last 7000th left in the game...I was short stacked and so on..
For example, most nights I'll give a $1 MTT a shot which usually draws in between 3000-6000 entrants. Often enough I can make the money and quite often have gone to the last 200 for example but still the cashing at these stakes is still very small for a 200th spot finish. I often see at my table so many large stacks who seem to all have like 50% VP$P, they will limp/raise or just play and call/fold to see flops and these guys seem to always have a few who actually reach the final table. At what stage is it time to loosen up? Like seriously? I can't seem to grasp it and like I say I don't know if it's standard varience or not.
I can do well in SnG Mtt's or smaller version MTT's with entrants ranging from 100-500. It's when it gets to the 1000's + I really start to struggle which making a FT. SnG 45/90/180 man MTT's I can like I say, quite often go deep reaching money and recently hitting some final tables in the mix especially if they are not turbos.
So does a standard 300 man MTT range of playing styles totally differ from a 5k entrant tournament? I know when to push in either of them I just don't seem to advance into the top scale of players in the larger tournaments so I'm wondering if tight play can work at these large MTT's..I can seem to do well like I say with small MTT's playing my "normal" game..
Any advice?
Thanks
EDIT: Just to add I've played maybe 200 of these larger MTT styles and the best I've gone is finished 11th in a facebook 10c with 6000k entrants lol. Terrible cash really so I know I did enough in that game but to be honest I did hit some cards too so could be variance in the others more than anything then again is 200+ MTT enough of a sample size?
I also managed to cash in a 1/4 million in like 4000th place lol out of 40k entrants so it can't be "that" bad? Then again I was really struggling when it became the last 7000th left in the game...I was short stacked and so on..
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