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kavelot
Rising Star
Bronze Level
I'm usually playing 45 players $1+$0.1 tournments on pokerstars, and I get on the money pretty often (enough to profit from playing it)
but I see too much variation
my basic strategy on these tournments is to wait premium hands when blinds are lower than 150 and push harder with them... if someone calls me when I belive I have the best hand and there's any kind of draw (even a inside straight draw), I'll bet at least pot-size (usually will go all-in)
I prefer winning the raise I did pre-flop than stupid players drawing without odds
but even like that, some of them do that and that's a big problem because it's hard to be more than 70% favourite
and if you're 70% favourite 3 times, the chances that you will win all of them be only 34%
when the blinds go higher, I start to play more loose (but not so often, because it's a 45-players tournment, so the table is always with about 8-9 players)... for example, I start to raise 3xBB with A7+ or K9+ on middle-to-last position
but I still get called by QJ, TJ... and many times I get have to go all-in)
and, again, I may be 70% favourite, but I have to get lucky to not lose 1 of 3 times when I'm 70% favourite... and maybe I'm all-in in one of these times
so what constantly frustrates me is that play well (not saying I'm a poker master, otherwise I wouldn't be playing $1 tournment), but constantly get bad beats
so of course my strategy would need some updates (and probably more observation on the players), but do you think I could get more lucky playing with better players (ie, more expensive tournments)?
but I see too much variation
my basic strategy on these tournments is to wait premium hands when blinds are lower than 150 and push harder with them... if someone calls me when I belive I have the best hand and there's any kind of draw (even a inside straight draw), I'll bet at least pot-size (usually will go all-in)
I prefer winning the raise I did pre-flop than stupid players drawing without odds
but even like that, some of them do that and that's a big problem because it's hard to be more than 70% favourite
and if you're 70% favourite 3 times, the chances that you will win all of them be only 34%
when the blinds go higher, I start to play more loose (but not so often, because it's a 45-players tournment, so the table is always with about 8-9 players)... for example, I start to raise 3xBB with A7+ or K9+ on middle-to-last position
but I still get called by QJ, TJ... and many times I get have to go all-in)
and, again, I may be 70% favourite, but I have to get lucky to not lose 1 of 3 times when I'm 70% favourite... and maybe I'm all-in in one of these times
so what constantly frustrates me is that play well (not saying I'm a poker master, otherwise I wouldn't be playing $1 tournment), but constantly get bad beats
so of course my strategy would need some updates (and probably more observation on the players), but do you think I could get more lucky playing with better players (ie, more expensive tournments)?