***Momentus May Tournament Thread***

[quintass]

Thinkin about a duel citizenship (US/Holland) so I can play some of these games.
Any Holland born girls out there need a temporary husband?

 

[Aldito]

Donk Q coming up here:

What is exactly is so good about events like SCOOP or iPOPS?

Are there more fish in these games or just bigger fields than normal?

I understand with series like the wsop the pros get to play a large number of high buyin events within a short space of time but surely there are enough micro/low/mid stakes games running all the time, no?

Just wondering srs

 

[Aldito]

Thinkin about a duel citizenship (US/Holland) so I can play some of these games.
Any Holland born girls out there need a temporary husband?

Go find a dutch girl anyway and pass on dem' tall genetics

 

[only_bridge]

Sometimes I dont understand how people are thinking.
I mean what did he think would happen?

pokerstars No-Limit Hold'em, 44 Tournament, 100/200 Blinds (8 handed) - PokerStars Converter Tool from FlopTurnRiver.com
CO (t3750)
Button (t2771)
Hero (SB) (t6055)
BB (t6260)
UTG (t5313)
UTG+1 (t4220)
MP1 (t3650)
MP2 (t8390)
Hero's M: 20.18
Preflop: Hero is SB with 6

, 6

5 folds, Button bets t600, Hero raises to t1400, 1 fold, Button calls t800
Flop: (t3000) 9

, K

, 7

(2 players)
Hero bets t4655 (All-In), 1 fold
Total pot: t3000

 

[Pascal-lf]

Donk Q coming up here:

What is exactly is so good about events like SCOOP or iPOPS?

Are there more fish in these games or just bigger fields than normal?

I understand with series like the WSOP the pros get to play a large number of high buyin events within a short space of time but surely there are enough micro/low/mid stakes games running all the time, no?

Just wondering srs

in the games themselves, tons more fish - the reg pool can't change that much but because they are advertised there's a way higher ratio of fish. the reason there's way more fish is because of the advertising and the massive prize pools; recreational players (be they good, average, bad or very bad) love the idea of winning a tournament for a life changing sum of money.

it also has a great impact on other games, as people will be making deposits to play scoop, playing other tournaments with cashes or when they bust, etc

 

[Aldito]

Ah I see, makes sense.

Well add one more recreational donk fish in there then

 

[BlueNowhere]

Sometimes I dont understand how people are thinking.
I mean what did he think would happen?

PokerStars No-Limit Hold'em, 44 Tournament, 100/200 Blinds (8 handed) - PokerStars Converter Tool from FlopTurnRiver.com
CO (t3750)
Button (t2771)
Hero (SB) (t6055)
BB (t6260)
UTG (t5313)
UTG+1 (t4220)
MP1 (t3650)
MP2 (t8390)
Hero's M: 20.18
Preflop: Hero is SB with 6

, 6

5 folds, Button bets t600, Hero raises to t1400, 1 fold, Button calls t800
Flop: (t3000) 9

, K

, 7

(2 players)
Hero bets t4655 (All-In), 1 fold
Total pot: t3000

Out of interest, what stack size are you 3-bet shoving here with same hand?

 

[only_bridge]

I should shy away from the poker table today, playing too bad.

PokerStars No-Limit Hold'em, 109 Tournament, 50/100 Blinds (8 handed) - PokerStars Converter Tool from FlopTurnRiver.com
Hero (CO) (t5350)
Button (t5069)
SB (t4325)
BB (t5509)
UTG (t4580)
UTG+1 (t3735)
MP1 (t8248)
MP2 (t6201)
Hero's M: 35.67
Preflop: Hero is CO with K

, K

4 folds, Hero bets t240, Button raises to t700, 2 folds, Hero raises to t1600, Button calls t900
Flop: (t3350) 2

, A

, 10

(2 players)
Hero bets t1600, Button calls t1600
Turn: (t6550) 9

(2 players)
Hero bets t2150 (All-In), Button calls t1869 (All-In)
River: (t10288) J

(2 players, 2 all-in)
Total pot: t10288

 

[only_bridge]

Out of interest, what stack size are you 3-bet shoving here with same hand?

Depends on tourney, and what stage.
To be honest I dont really know exactly.
Edit: with 30bb's? almost never.

 

[duggs]

Depends on tourney, and what stage.
To be honest I dont really know exactly.
Edit: with 30bb's? almost never.

im shoving there.
dont like a stop n go

 

[only_bridge]

im shoving there.
dont like a stop n go

It wasnt ment as a stop and go.
It was basicly putting the shortstack all-in, without risking my whole stack.

 

[duggs]

so you are raise/folding to the 30bb bb?
really really dont like it,
are you sizing your entire range like that? or just the part that you are willing to fold.
seeing a flop with that hand with no intention of folding kinda sucks as he is bad and gets away when he misses, and has us crushed when he calls,
much rather put it in pre

 

[only_bridge]

so you are raise/folding to the 30bb bb?
really really dont like it,
are you sizing your entire range like that? or just the part that you are willing to fold.
seeing a flop with that hand with no intention of folding kinda sucks as he is bad and gets away when he misses, and has us crushed when he calls,
much rather put it in pre

I think its too much to push with, so yeah, would do the same with my entire range.
What about you, do you go all-in with AA there?

 

[duggs]

13bb effective

 

[only_bridge]

13bb effective

30.5bb's effective.

 

[duggs]

the bb gets involved so rarely when you shove. there range for shoving vs calling shove is much wider

 

[only_bridge]

the bb gets involved so rarely when you shove. there range for shoving vs calling shove is much wider

I think the tournies I play differ a bit from the ones you play.

 

[Pascal-lf]

probably 25bb and under i'd say

 

[duggs]

who is playing on saturday
event 2 of scoop?
just sattied into it just now for the mid buy in, going to play the low buy in aswell, anyone else?

 

[doomasiggy]

who is playing on saturday
event 2 of scoop?
just sattied into it just now for the mid buy in, going to play the low buy in aswell, anyone else?

Thought SCOOP started on sunday mate?

 

[duggs]

yea i mean sunday , sorry straight out of an exam

 

[JohnBoyWWFC]

I've only played 1ante-up tournament in my life and got pretty confused by what was going on IIRC. What should the strategy be in these. Pascal, you advocate open limping a lot?

 

[Pascal-lf]

the blinds are 5/5/ante and only the ante changes, should be pretty obvious that limping every hand after the first few levels (and probably even in the first few levels) is pretty obviously going to be good

 

[BlueNowhere]

Yea in later stages you get like like 3000/1 to limp in. You could profitably only continue past the flop if you hit a FH or better.

 

[JohnBoyWWFC]

So what do you do when you pick up a premium hand? Are you just limping Aces and hoping to hit hard? If not, what's your raise size gonna be?