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Currently in tournaments I notice that the villains are hiding the range 1 and 2 of hands with only mini raise pre flop and no more the 3bet, would this be the new form for increase of stack in the long term?
Is this the safest way to induce, the other players to the error trying to hide real strength of the hand?
 
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Mini raise pre flop seems to me a dangerous move if I have a good hand that I can draw value. If you have a good pair in hand, in preflop, would recommend defending and raising for value, because if we play weak preflop, the villains pay cheap to see the flop and can be favorable for the villain example: I have AA, weak play preflop, the villain has 55 minor pair, pay cheap to see the flop, flop 594 ...
Not only that, more villains will enter in the hand, because it will be cheap to see the flop and our chances of winning the hand will decrease.
We must defend our strong hand and get the highest possible value, a balance between those two limits, that villain pay but not cheap to see the flop. :)
 
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I watched the main event of the pokerstars championship yesterday. Klatt made a superb shuv with a weaker hand preflop. Then limped in with a strong hand next and got good value. I think in heads up it's fine to limp but with more players your inviting them to play with weak hands that could hit. How many times have we seen traps back fire, dangerous play in tournaments.
 
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Currently in tournaments I notice that the villains are hiding the range 1 and 2 of hands with only mini raise pre flop and no more the 3bet, would this be the new form for increase of stack in the long term?

What stakes? I see this a lot in micro when I play. I don't think I have seen a lot of it on medium/high stakes MTTs when I've been watching poker on stream though. So if you are talking about small stakes, I would say it is fishy mover rather than new winning strategy ;).
 
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This style of play is double-edged.
On the one hand, you mask the power of your hand, and increase the likelihood that it will be undervalued and well paid.
On the other hand, a low raise raises the number of opponents who want to see the flop with you. Your AA will not be so good on many boards.

Perhaps the most correct choice when choosing this strategy will consider which opponents are sitting at your table. If it's loose maniacs, then it's worth raising more. If you are not afraid that there will be a lot of players in the draw - it's worth playing out your premium hands in the "wrong" way, disguising the power of your hand.

In any case, you are at risk. But poker is a risk! You can lose with a strong hand, but you can get a good payment for it. Choose! :D
 
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The better the player, the less need to raise big before the flop. If your post flop play is above average, you want to have weaker and dominated hands there with you, because even though you give them a chance to catch up, you know how to get away from those situations without going broke, and, also, more often, you give them chances to make mistakes when they don't catch up.
 
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