Played my tuesday night $17 tourney yesterday. Things were going ok, hanging on and making the odd move here and there but mostly quiet patient play. I raise utg with AA and my lovely lady on the same table pushes all in with 10's, I knock her out. One player is destroying the game, hitting the whole deck. One by one knocking them down like flies, had half the tourney chips before FT. On the final table he took out three of four people to take us down to 5. 3 paid 4th free entry.
I get AQc utg have 24k chips blinds 1k/2k. I make it 5.5k, fold, fold and he asks for a count behind 'bout 20k I say. He calls. Flop comes QQK, and I begin wondering how to get all my chips in. I bet 6k and he calls. Turn comes a K, oh dear i thought, well Im commited now, put the rest in and he calls with KQs FML.
Ive had a couple of better sessions on stars have been thinking about playing less tables. Ive played up to 16 and I guess I only do well when Im getting great cards. I had a good think about my screen layout and I was thinking about what might have been different when I was doing better. It was about the fish. Getting on the tables with the fish, playing in better positions against fish. Staying out of pots where I can against solid players that I have 500 hands on and targeting fish. All of that seemed to go by the wayside after a little success and I just added more tables, less time to think, less time to study the hud when Im in hands. I was on too many tables, playing too much and not switching tables enough. Not looking at table manager enough.
Please feel free to critique or add suggestions to the following please.
I just had an encouraging session laying out 6 tiled tables at the top of the screen with tablemanager and the lobby at the bottom, scan and waitlist the lobby and if I get up to 9 tables then I either check tablemanager and quit the lowest VPIP tables and replace them with better ones, aiming for 5-8 tables running 27+ VPIP. Im quitting the lowest and try not to stay on tables 19 VPIP or less without a good reason.
I been doing a little reading and Im trying to get my head round some suggestions of play at the micros.
These are: Preflop raises with AA and KK, open raising to 16c. I just cant get any callers. Even when I open in the cutoff for 8c or the button for 6c, Im not getting enough calls. Of course when I try it with JQs the flop whiffs and I get a donk bet
maybe Im a little biased there...... but Im not getting enough calls with fat raises.
Limping. I basically almost never limp out of the sb. (prob too much in the sb). My question here is, Where are you limping?under which circumstances can we limp? I am mostly talking about hands like 44 55 66 77 or setmining opportunities. Do you limp/call 4bb raises? Im either folding or raising these hands now and Im wondering if there is a scenario that by limping we encourage more players to the pot and if we were to raise to 8c then we can call 8c with a few more players in the pot. These hands arent so good post flop and Im either too weak and dont cbet enough or cbet the wrong flop.
Cheers
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