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Dwarf
Rock Star
Silver Level
The buy in was $2+.2 fee on ACR. 5000 Starting chips 5 min blinds. (18 levels of late reg)
The tournament felt like it was deep stacked, HOWEVER after 1 hour of playing ABC Poker I was at around 6500 chips and was only sitting at ~35 Big Blinds.
I decided it was time to play a bit more aggressive, I raised from the button with a weak ace, got called from the big blind. Flop Came Axx I bet and got called. I bet the turn, and get check raised all in. It was hard to fold but I did. 15 minutes later I had less than 12 Big Blinds. This is when I knew I had to start shoving, and when I got QJs in late position I did so only to get called by AA. Flop comes QQ6 and I crack-em. THIS IS WHAT ALLOWED ME TO CONTINUE ON TO WIN - I attribute one other hand later in the tournament where the blinds are 1250-2500 and I am in the small blind with 10-6 off suit. One person limps in, and I'm looking at a pot of 8000+ preflop so I call.
Flop comes K66
Big Blind goes all in,
Limper goes all in,
I call.
I beat KJ and K8.
At the final table everyone seems to be playing super tight, so I get into a habit of min raising and it takes down enough pots that I'm building my stack well, but im folding to all re-raises (which are few and far between) unless I have a premium hand. I knock out the guy in 6th with AK over A9s after he re-raises my min raise all in.
When its down to 3 people left at the table I have half the chips in play. I start min raising and one opponent starts re-raising all in every time I raise. After he does it 4x in a row I call with KJ he flips A9 and I win :/
With 2 people left I'm min raising every button Immediately. He re-raises me all in then folds his small blind. This happens 3x in a row and I call the 4th time with A2o and take out J10o to win.
Moral of the Story - This 5min blind turbo is a pure Luck box format. ( I turned $2 into $45 but... not with good play)
What I did notice was on the last level of late reg (2 hours in) the money was for the top 15 positions and we had 17players left. The tournament went on break and when we came back 5 ppl late reg within the last minutes. Blinds were almost 625-1250 at this point. That being said a lot of the late registers ended up cashing. So If I were to recommend playing a freezeout turbo like this to anyone - Last level late reg almost guarantees you 50% profit on your buy in. I doubt you could win from the late reg, but Im pretty sure its an easy cash and definitely worth keeping an eye out for. Otherwise dont play 5min blind turbos unless you can deal with uber high variance.
The tournament felt like it was deep stacked, HOWEVER after 1 hour of playing ABC Poker I was at around 6500 chips and was only sitting at ~35 Big Blinds.
I decided it was time to play a bit more aggressive, I raised from the button with a weak ace, got called from the big blind. Flop Came Axx I bet and got called. I bet the turn, and get check raised all in. It was hard to fold but I did. 15 minutes later I had less than 12 Big Blinds. This is when I knew I had to start shoving, and when I got QJs in late position I did so only to get called by AA. Flop comes QQ6 and I crack-em. THIS IS WHAT ALLOWED ME TO CONTINUE ON TO WIN - I attribute one other hand later in the tournament where the blinds are 1250-2500 and I am in the small blind with 10-6 off suit. One person limps in, and I'm looking at a pot of 8000+ preflop so I call.
Flop comes K66
Big Blind goes all in,
Limper goes all in,
I call.
I beat KJ and K8.
At the final table everyone seems to be playing super tight, so I get into a habit of min raising and it takes down enough pots that I'm building my stack well, but im folding to all re-raises (which are few and far between) unless I have a premium hand. I knock out the guy in 6th with AK over A9s after he re-raises my min raise all in.
When its down to 3 people left at the table I have half the chips in play. I start min raising and one opponent starts re-raising all in every time I raise. After he does it 4x in a row I call with KJ he flips A9 and I win :/
With 2 people left I'm min raising every button Immediately. He re-raises me all in then folds his small blind. This happens 3x in a row and I call the 4th time with A2o and take out J10o to win.
Moral of the Story - This 5min blind turbo is a pure Luck box format. ( I turned $2 into $45 but... not with good play)
What I did notice was on the last level of late reg (2 hours in) the money was for the top 15 positions and we had 17players left. The tournament went on break and when we came back 5 ppl late reg within the last minutes. Blinds were almost 625-1250 at this point. That being said a lot of the late registers ended up cashing. So If I were to recommend playing a freezeout turbo like this to anyone - Last level late reg almost guarantees you 50% profit on your buy in. I doubt you could win from the late reg, but Im pretty sure its an easy cash and definitely worth keeping an eye out for. Otherwise dont play 5min blind turbos unless you can deal with uber high variance.
