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fern007

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I have a huge poker Tourney around may way and i would like some advice, strategy on how i can come in the money. only 3 tables and 1st 2nd and 3rd pay out. 100 bucks buy in. help a brother out.
 
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Do you have any experience in live poker? If not the best advice I can give is: Don't throw away 100$. Other than that just study a lot and practice online tournaments and live cash games to get experience
 
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Do not play these tournaments with this BI, better play micro limits and gain experience..
 
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It's live poker or online.

Since they are two very different forms of poker, live poker you can play more psychology factor

* Online and more likely factor is played.
 
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I would be leery of throwing 100 dollar into a live tourney unless you have experience. Judging from your confidence level in this post, I would say you are hoping to just coast into the money....however I would expect a lot of good/experienced poker players to be in the tournament since it has a pretty high buy in. If you are nervous, I wouldn't join until you get some experience. The other players will have no problem reading you if you are nervous.
 
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This Buy in is so high man, play only if your have a great Bank.

I think is better u play more tournaments with a low buy in, and more tables.
 
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I'll come down on the other side...unless it is your last $100, just go have fun.

At a $100 buy-in, you'll have a mixed bag of players. Some will be pretty solid, but others will be weekend warriors that will just donate their buy-in.

My advice - play tight the first few hand until you are settled in and your initial nerves are gone. Then just have fun.

Good luck.

Note: I'm assuming this is a live tournament.
 
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I'll come down on the other side...unless it is your last $100, just go have fun.

At a $100 buy-in, you'll have a mixed bag of players. Some will be pretty solid, but others will be weekend warriors that will just donate their buy-in.

My advice - play tight the first few hand until you are settled in and your initial nerves are gone. Then just have fun.

Good luck.

Note: I'm assuming this is a live tournament.
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If I were you I'd be looking to play a bunch of multi-table sng's, 'regular speed' (ie. 27mans, 18mans, & even 45mans).
If there's expected to be ~30 entrants in the tourney you're playing in, tables will be playing short-handed for a good portion of the tournament. You'll need to up the aggression in order to stay ahead of the blinds.

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Not sure what types of live tournaments many of the other posters in this thread typically play in if they figure that a $100 live tourney is a 'high buyin'. idk about the rest of you but where I live it's pretty hard to even find many (any) tournaments that can be played for cheaper than $100.
 
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play good hands in position i guess that helps in all tournaments
 
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So guys to answer all of your questions, yes i have some experience in live tourneys but for some reason i keep getting anxious to win the big pots and keep getting out kicked. I played 4 hands and busted out by the 4th level. I was furious. I've got as far as the final table once and to the last 2 tables twice a year ago. Last week when i asked the question was my first time back at the tables after taking a year off!!! Again thank you all for replying to my post. Much appreciated!!

Oh and this is 27mans tourney
 
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FYI Everyone: for live tourneys, $100 is not a high buy in at all; since the cheapest possible are usually $40-$50. Also, in a live tourney, the field is typically pretty soft at the $100 level.

$100 live = about $2.20 online (very rough approximate)

If you can afford the $100 it should be fun.

my advice for you to stop getting outkicked? easy....can you guess it? that's right...don't play hands that are easily dominated in the early levels. :)

so...yes, I am actually saying don't play AJ, KJ, QT, A9 etc in the early levels. These are lovingly known as trap hands, or trouble hands for a reason. IF you must play these do it with the raising lead and with position.

TRANSLATION: Don't call raises with trap hands. PERIOD...even if you'll have position. Don't open raise in early position with trap hands. You want BOTH the lead AND position to play trap hands in the early levels. Don't defend your blinds with trap hands, in fact there's really no point in defending your blinds at all in the early levels....yeah maybe with a suited ace or small pocket pair you can defend your blinds and try to flop a big hand or big draw...but mostly just DON'T.

so what SHOULD you play in the early levels? Value hands like JJ+ and AK, AQs and small pocket pairs to set mine. and that's about it. AQ is my cutoff for value hands in the early levels. Mid pocket pairs are pretty hard to play, too. real tricky. just play them like you're set mining and you should be OK.

When the antes come in, and/or the blinds get big widen your open raising requirements FROM late position, but not from early position.
 
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There is no way to guarantee finishing in the money. In poker you can play perfectly and still lose (and usually will lose, in a tournament :)

Save your money, unless you have money to burn :)

The book "Kill Phil" will at least give you a shot at winning (but no guarantees :)
 
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thank you sooo much this helped me a lot last night... I made the final table... next week I go and take it down...
 
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One advice I can give you out of personal experience is, No Matter What Cards You Hold(even if u have AA), Dont Get Carried Away And Go All In Pre-Flop Early In the Tournament.

Its better to be sure of having the winning hand, rather than go in blindly with a chance of losing.

Good Luck to you.
 
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congrats on making the final table. Look back on that tourney and see if there was a mistake you could fix to maybe make the money next time! cheers!
 
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Nice one.. Just make sure you dont make yourself predictable, keep them guessing at what your going to do next, Good luck.
 
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My recommendation is play tight out of position and little more aggressive in position and you course you need some good hands :) Good luck !
 
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