bolcs5
Enthusiast
Silver Level
MTT – SATELLITE
I haven’t found too much about this in the forum, so I’ll write down my thoughts.
First of all you have to decide if it is profitable to play in a satellite. I feel comfortable in satellites, where every 10, or maybe more people gets to the next round. Maybe I’m not good enough, but when first 5 gets a seat from 100, I don’t feel like I can do it. But being in the top 10% seems OK.
Satellites are good, because not too experienced players can get into higher stakes, with risking only a slice of the real buy-in. Even if you try to get in a 100$ buy in tourney, and you only win a ticket in the 4th 10$ satellite-you saved 60$!
Okay, tournament started.
First thing you have to do, is to see how many chips are in play, and how many do you need to reach your goal. This is usually not the total chips/places paying, but less. Thats because there will be some players above average chips at the end.
In the first period it’s pretty like in any other MTT. There are weak players, and you want to get their chips. But a REALLY important note: you can’t bluff out a weak player. You have to be patient and wait for the good cards. They would go all-in with K-10 and beat your pocket queens..
After a few blind stages crazy all-iners number is reducing. So you can play your style.
After an hour you should be a little above average. If you are less the 10BB, you have to try to double up, if you make it great, if you don’t you saved time, and didn’t wait till the blinds eat you up. You shouldn’t sit back in the middle of the tournament, even if you have more than average chips. You have to try, and take risks sometimes.
If you are near the end, you don’t need to take risks. You have to watch for short stackes who don’t defent their chips, raise them, get some little in every round. You don’t need to risk half of your chips or more, because the goal in to be in the top X, no matter which place. Raising all-in when you are not a short-stacked is a main mistake here. Even if you have KK, just raise 3-5BB, and if there’s an ace in the flop fold and think about the chips you saved.
If you are out of the playing places, then you have to double up or try to steel those blinds who are not willing to play. Even the chipleader can fold your raise, because he can feel that he’s almost there, and folding all the time. You can see who these people are.
You have to be really really patient at the end. Someone WILL lose his head. You have to think before acting. The position, the players, is it worth to take this risk? You will reach your goal if you have a cold head.
Well in a nutshell that’s how I think.
It worked today
, I played a 6$ satellite, and now I’m in the 100.000$ guaranteed game on Sunday at purple-lounge (prima-network) – unfortunetly it’s a rebuy game (50$), but I’ll see what can I do.
So I’m waiting for the comments, and other tips about playing a MTT satellite.
Good luck!
I haven’t found too much about this in the forum, so I’ll write down my thoughts.
First of all you have to decide if it is profitable to play in a satellite. I feel comfortable in satellites, where every 10, or maybe more people gets to the next round. Maybe I’m not good enough, but when first 5 gets a seat from 100, I don’t feel like I can do it. But being in the top 10% seems OK.
Satellites are good, because not too experienced players can get into higher stakes, with risking only a slice of the real buy-in. Even if you try to get in a 100$ buy in tourney, and you only win a ticket in the 4th 10$ satellite-you saved 60$!
Okay, tournament started.
First thing you have to do, is to see how many chips are in play, and how many do you need to reach your goal. This is usually not the total chips/places paying, but less. Thats because there will be some players above average chips at the end.
In the first period it’s pretty like in any other MTT. There are weak players, and you want to get their chips. But a REALLY important note: you can’t bluff out a weak player. You have to be patient and wait for the good cards. They would go all-in with K-10 and beat your pocket queens..
After a few blind stages crazy all-iners number is reducing. So you can play your style.
After an hour you should be a little above average. If you are less the 10BB, you have to try to double up, if you make it great, if you don’t you saved time, and didn’t wait till the blinds eat you up. You shouldn’t sit back in the middle of the tournament, even if you have more than average chips. You have to try, and take risks sometimes.
If you are near the end, you don’t need to take risks. You have to watch for short stackes who don’t defent their chips, raise them, get some little in every round. You don’t need to risk half of your chips or more, because the goal in to be in the top X, no matter which place. Raising all-in when you are not a short-stacked is a main mistake here. Even if you have KK, just raise 3-5BB, and if there’s an ace in the flop fold and think about the chips you saved.
If you are out of the playing places, then you have to double up or try to steel those blinds who are not willing to play. Even the chipleader can fold your raise, because he can feel that he’s almost there, and folding all the time. You can see who these people are.
You have to be really really patient at the end. Someone WILL lose his head. You have to think before acting. The position, the players, is it worth to take this risk? You will reach your goal if you have a cold head.
Well in a nutshell that’s how I think.
It worked today
, I played a 6$ satellite, and now I’m in the 100.000$ guaranteed game on Sunday at purple-lounge (prima-network) – unfortunetly it’s a rebuy game (50$), but I’ll see what can I do.So I’m waiting for the comments, and other tips about playing a MTT satellite.
Good luck!
