I had 3 royal flushes (on one site) within 3-4 days . as I said before online poker is 10000% rigged
I made first place in a 5.5$ MTT a couple of days ago and won 540$ or something and I often get to the money in tourneys and not rarely do I win one . and in real life I made decent cash in home cash games . so no I am not a bad player . I might not be a great one but I know what I am doing . I am sure that it is rigged ...10000% sure
I only play freerolls nowdays
Cash games and tournaments are very different games. You can be a beast in a cash games and still not win a 200 player tournament for years. You need a very different kind of strategy to be succesful in tournaments, especially in the later stages of a tournament. If you’re getting in the money with very high percentage in the MTTs but find it hard to get in to the final table and impossible to ever win those tournaments then I’ll give you an advice which might help you tremendously and give you a much better chance to get in to the big bucks.
First, if you have problems to get even to the deep stages of the tournaments (the best 4-8%) then I suggest that you start playing some 36-90 players sit ’n gos (and preferably turbos) to get more comfortable at playing in a stage where most of the players are short stacked. Another reason to play these are just to get more experiance of those kind of situations.
And when there comes a time that you’ll start to get in to the final tables pretty regularly you should start to play those 36-90plrs sit ’n gos little less (maybe about 30-50% less) and replace them with single player sit ’n gos and I think you’re already seeing where I’m going with this. But just in case you’re not, it will give you a lot of experience of playing in the final table kind of setting and of playing in a short table tournament and also the very important heads up game.
To win any kind of tournament you will need to win the heads up game and many players who get into the heads up in the bigger size MTTs are far from expert level heads up players. And anyone who is still reading this knows how big difference there is money wise to win a tournament (especially MTT) than to become the second after losing the heads up game.
Those times in bigger MTTs when there are only 2-6 players left are crucial to your overall success if you’re really that good that you will get that deep in those tournaments pretty regularly (about 2-10%, depends on how big field tournaments you’re regularly playing). At those stages the pay out jumps are huge compared to the buy in amount.
But you should never play like you’re just trying to survive for a short while and see what happens. You should always play for the win and if you let yourself to get short stacked by your choice you’re not even giving yourself a chance to win. Nobody get enough of premium hands when your starting to get deeper into the tournament. The bigger the blinds get the more you need to start taking chances, unless you have just won a couple of huge pots and are sitting on the monster size stack in a big chip lead of the tournament. And when the tables are getting to be short regularly you need to open up your use of a starting hands and
bluff a little more and always open with a raise (except from the sb). And if you’re the big stack you should put a lot of pressure to all the medium size stacks who still have a lot to win and lot to lose. Short stacks don’t have much to lose so don’t push them by default.
Please try this if you think it made any sense and you can allways ask me more if I wasn’t clear enough with something (this is not my first language but as you might have noticed I’m still pretty comfortable using it
but when you’re writing while thinking there will be mistakes made). And if you’re going to try even some of the stuff from this post I would very much like to hear if some of it improved your results.
Good luck to the tables and remember always to set your game brains either into the cash game mode or to the tournament mode. Please don’t mix them up, it won’t be pretty
