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Vitaliy Popik

Vitaliy Popik

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Hello guys. I have a question. I love tournament`s very much. freerolls and Sit&Go tournaments. But I have never reached the final table.. :( In tournaments with buy-in 0.02$ , 0.10$ I will plays easy.. And have a 20-30 plases at this tounaments.. But 0.60$ and 0.27$ a very poor prizes ( What i need to be in a final tables of this kind of touney?
I do not occupy 1-9 places in this tournaments and because of that I can not go to tournaments with large prizes.. Because I'm afraid to lose at the beginning.. How can I be:confused:?
 
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those tourneys are typically turbo's and IMO you need to be playing a bigger range of hands when your in position and first into the pot. Don't get caught up calling allins preflop.

you might be more comfy in the .25 regular speed games (45 man, 90 man slow speed 15 min blinds) to build your BR
 
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Hello guys. I have a question. I love tournament`s very much. Freerolls and Sit&Go tournaments. But I have never reached the final table.. :( In tournaments with buy-in 0.02$ , 0.10$ I will plays easy.. And have a 20-30 plases at this tounaments.. But 0.60$ and 0.27$ a very poor prizes ( What i need to be in a final tables of this kind of touney?
I do not occupy 1-9 places in this tournaments and because of that I can not go to tournaments with large prizes.. Because I'm afraid to lose at the beginning.. How can I be:confused:?

I don't know what to tell you. The first Sit 'n' Go I played I came in 2nd place (paid through the final three) and the second one I won outright. I've had some pretty good results playing live tourneys as well. That includes the home game SnG's I used to play before the other regs decided that they'd be better off if they don't invite Dorugremon since I was always winning one and/or finishing in the money in two or more.

I did this by playing it the same as I do cash: pay attention, observe, get a line on their play -- who's the fish, the calling station, the FoF, the nut scared rabbit, especially the one who's on a short stack, the nit, and play them accordingly. If you're running card dead, don't push the panic button prematurely, and when you have that "go" hand, make certain you're the first in when you jam it. All-in calls, unless you're holding a monster like pocket QQ+ or AQ+, just spew off chips and get you bounced from the tourney out of the money.

When it's time to play double up or get up, it's so much better to be playing something like 76 behind a raise, 3!, 4! jam. They're not playing sixes and sevens up front. I'd rather call with 76 than A5-s in that case. They probably have aces and kings, so you're probably not gonna get one. They're also blocking each other, and that means your small pair is more likely to hold up.

The other thing I found to be most helpful is to min-raise when opening. This keeps pots small, allows you to conserve chips because your c-bets are also smaller. If you have to drop your hand, you've saved yourself a big blind. It adds up. It's rare to find a player who will fold to a 3x open, but call a 2x open, or who will call a smaller 1/2 pot c-bet, but fold to a bigger 1/2 pot c-bet. In those smaller tourneys, they're not thinking pot odds at all.

One last thing: never give up. All you need is a chip and a chair. I can just tell when the last player basically gives up. I can just smell it, and know they'll play something ridiculous just to get it over with. I've been right a helluvalot more than I've been wrong.
 
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See reaching at final tables required great discipline in play and luck in free tourneys where players involvement are huge. I just follow few steps-- Initial phase is to build a decent chip size when blinds are low.
Play tight at early stage. Beware of allins frenziness when chip stack is low. Avoid lower pocket pairs, even higher pairs should be avoided when several players go allins preflop especially in freerolls. Remember AA and AK just have good odds before flop which becomes 0 tremendously when flops appear like 5 5 5 and somebody do hold 2 5 or K 5 and ready to shove allins. These things are very common in online poker..
Once u have moderate chip size play semi aggressive, means just eat the low stack players who r at the verge of getting out.
The most important issue face by players are they loose their Patience in these tourneys at middle stage even professionals do loose because these tournaments take huge time 4-6 hours to finish, So Patience can be breached.
The other thing is time difference as most of the tournaments suit European times but that time Asia sleep. Like in my case as I am from india I play most tournaments in early morning which is not ideal.
Bad beats do happen-- like in my scenario-- I was having Flush at flop higher card A . after flop my rival goes allins. I too. And I lost as turn and rivers appeared 9 9 and he had pocket 9s So his hand became 4 of kinds..and I lost $350 hard cash.
You know my bday us on 9 the. LOL.

So have Patience and enjoy ur game.
 
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Learning to play in the later stages, learning to use statistics and a little luck. Good luck at the tables
 
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Try to play a tight, wait for good cards. I, too, at first afraid to lose. Just sitting and watching the other players play. When it became a little easier accustomed. Then the average was used in the card game. Get over yourself psychologically.
 
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if i concentrate and focus on gsme i do well but latly i dont have patiensr
 
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I think that the main thing in poker is patience, especially in the later stages of the game. took me 2 times first place,but any nerves it cost. the main thing for me in online rocker is not to be distracted from the game. try to go for prizes,then at the last table, then to 3 finalists, and finally to gather and win.
 
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I love ls tournaments is a great opportunity to make money
 
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See reaching at final tables required great discipline in play and luck in free tourneys where players involvement are huge. I just follow few steps-- Initial phase is to build a decent chip size when blinds are low.
Play tight at early stage. Beware of allins frenziness when chip stack is low. Avoid lower pocket pairs, even higher pairs should be avoided when several players go allins preflop especially in freerolls. Remember AA and AK just have good odds before flop which becomes 0 tremendously when flops appear like 5 5 5 and somebody do hold 2 5 or K 5 and ready to shove allins. These things are very common in online poker..
Once u have moderate chip size play semi aggressive, means just eat the low stack players who r at the verge of getting out.
The most important issue face by players are they loose their Patience in these tourneys at middle stage even professionals do loose because these tournaments take huge time 4-6 hours to finish, So Patience can be breached.
The other thing is time difference as most of the tournaments suit European times but that time Asia sleep. Like in my case as I am from India I play most tournaments in early morning which is not ideal.
Bad beats do happen-- like in my scenario-- I was having Flush at flop higher card A . after flop my rival goes allins. I too. And I lost as turn and rivers appeared 9 9 and he had pocket 9s So his hand became 4 of kinds..and I lost $350 hard cash.
You know my bday us on 9 the. LOL.

So have Patience and enjoy ur game.

a good strategy, it is necessary to try) but that did not have the patience to me, playing MTT
 
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