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CaptainKout
Rock Star
Silver Level
I think NOT or barely. So the 11 cent superturbos are the only one's I'm playing because my roll is nonexistent so play might be totally different elsewhere but these players are poo. Here's the thing, I'm not really looking at my cards. Sure I wanna play strong Aces and mid to premium pocket pairs, but the games are too short. You might not get any and just blind out. The way I'm playing these tournies, still a work in progress obviously, but I'm really just shoving when other people don't seem to want to put their stack on the line.
Strategy Outline:
a)Shove at limpers.
b)Shove in the blinds against steal attempts.
c)Shove pocket pairs and strong aces at big stacks.
d)Shove any ace at short stacks and 88+
e)Don't call shoves from big stacks
f)Don't call shoves from short stacks with others behind
a)Basically if they don't shove out of the gate then they have a monster (QQ+) or random broadways/weak aces that they likely don't wanna stack off with yet. Its happened repeatedly in the early goings that there are two limpers with me in the big blind. I shove atc and they both fold, one of them shows A9, kj, or 66 and says something dum in the chatbox. Since youre starting off with 10x the blinds winning 100 or 150 off each limper increases your stack by like 20%+ plus you keep your blind. If they call, youre probably behind like 60-40 but who cares. You suck out 40% of the time, and sometimes you have a reasonable hand. Most importantly, if it succeeds twice you can pretty much coast to the money and I think that it was a rather high rate of success anyways.
b)Since the blinds move up so fast, people start trying to steal. Again, if they don't shove they're trying to steal without risking their stack.
c)Big stacks are trying to knock people out. Their calling with pretty weak hands especially once they've doubled up twice. You actually need value here tho because they'll call so often. You want to double up through the big stacks because they're playing weaker hands than the others, with the exception of short stacks.
d)Short stacks are desperate, you can shove your middle pairs at them because you aren't risking your whole stack and usually your better than 50/50 so its worth the risk. You can also play any ace here because they will feel obligated to play the j10 or whatever since its the first decent hand they've seen since the tournie started.
e)When other people are shoving you can basically trust that they want to be called. ESPECIALLY if they shove utg or utg+1. I never call shoves from big stacks without Dominating aces(AQ+) or premium pairs. Their calling range is much better for you than their shoving range. A reasonable tell here is if they size up a shorter stack and raise exactly his stack. Usually that means weak ace. When they shove their whole stack its a monster and they couldn't help but hit the all in button.
f)The small stacks are shoving bad hands, we know that but when there are people behind you, the question is do you call or shove. Calling shows you don't want your whole stack involved and welcomes the big stacks to put you all in. Shoving is better but with people behind they're bound to be someone waiting with a monster or just a better ace or something. Let someone else collect the short stack when you're oop unless youre confident that no one else wants to play this pot, meaning you've got wicked nits behind or you're in the blinds.
OK. Constructive criticism, please.
Strategy Outline:
a)Shove at limpers.
b)Shove in the blinds against steal attempts.
c)Shove pocket pairs and strong aces at big stacks.
d)Shove any ace at short stacks and 88+
e)Don't call shoves from big stacks
f)Don't call shoves from short stacks with others behind
a)Basically if they don't shove out of the gate then they have a monster (QQ+) or random broadways/weak aces that they likely don't wanna stack off with yet. Its happened repeatedly in the early goings that there are two limpers with me in the big blind. I shove atc and they both fold, one of them shows A9, kj, or 66 and says something dum in the chatbox. Since youre starting off with 10x the blinds winning 100 or 150 off each limper increases your stack by like 20%+ plus you keep your blind. If they call, youre probably behind like 60-40 but who cares. You suck out 40% of the time, and sometimes you have a reasonable hand. Most importantly, if it succeeds twice you can pretty much coast to the money and I think that it was a rather high rate of success anyways.
b)Since the blinds move up so fast, people start trying to steal. Again, if they don't shove they're trying to steal without risking their stack.
c)Big stacks are trying to knock people out. Their calling with pretty weak hands especially once they've doubled up twice. You actually need value here tho because they'll call so often. You want to double up through the big stacks because they're playing weaker hands than the others, with the exception of short stacks.
d)Short stacks are desperate, you can shove your middle pairs at them because you aren't risking your whole stack and usually your better than 50/50 so its worth the risk. You can also play any ace here because they will feel obligated to play the j10 or whatever since its the first decent hand they've seen since the tournie started.
e)When other people are shoving you can basically trust that they want to be called. ESPECIALLY if they shove utg or utg+1. I never call shoves from big stacks without Dominating aces(AQ+) or premium pairs. Their calling range is much better for you than their shoving range. A reasonable tell here is if they size up a shorter stack and raise exactly his stack. Usually that means weak ace. When they shove their whole stack its a monster and they couldn't help but hit the all in button.
f)The small stacks are shoving bad hands, we know that but when there are people behind you, the question is do you call or shove. Calling shows you don't want your whole stack involved and welcomes the big stacks to put you all in. Shoving is better but with people behind they're bound to be someone waiting with a monster or just a better ace or something. Let someone else collect the short stack when you're oop unless youre confident that no one else wants to play this pot, meaning you've got wicked nits behind or you're in the blinds.
OK. Constructive criticism, please.