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Posted by Gerimantas: Yes I too think to play deep stack tournaments i a good idea and such problems with too small chips stack and big blinds and small blinds taking lots of chips are not here anymore. I always like to play slow tournaments with many chances to increase stack and play many hands too
I agree. Tougher to find, and more costly. I like tournaments with guarantees and possible overlay on my investment where possible. Tougher to find nowadays and the vast amount of poorly structured tournaments far outweigh, slow structures.
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They are making tournaments in a way to end as soon as possible. The more of them running the more the poker sites win, from the buy ins. And it is obvious with all these fast lotto games taking over everywhere. But still its games that some will never play for the obvious reasons.
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Posted by Gerimantas: Yes I too think to play deep stack tournaments i a good idea and such problems with too small chips stack and big blinds and small blinds taking lots of chips are not here anymore. I always like to play slow tournaments with many chances to increase stack and play many hands too
I know this feeling but these tournaments are very expensive and is not available to anyone to play in these tourneys with big buy in. Here you have a lot of thinking time not in the games where the blinds are three minutes five or eight. There you are 20 minutes blinds and much more time to try to create a stack try to make good money.
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Posted by CALICUL:
Posted by StheP: its simple if they are too much folding on your opens, than you should open more... I would LOVE that evryone folds to my open... I would wider my opening range that my VPIP would be like 90 than LOL
Yes it would be a nice thing but it is not possible. With so many goood players will find someone to pay for some hands and it will destroy your chance. I know the poker game is quite complicated, but these people are playing in higher buy-in tournaments he can always change style of play. I should stay at lower buy in. 215 $ is too big for me if i play every week in sunday million.
thats just opening... my postflop game is udjusted to player and situation I am in... but if I have reputation as a creazy loose player I would valuebet the sht out of them by betting huge when I have it... if they want to call, when I dont have it and I have tight image I would bet small and try to take that down... but that is just simplefied... there is a lot of things to consider like 100 things... how player that you play against played, how he saw you play, how many chips you and he have, what is phase of tournament ( how many till money, or payjump) there is like million things you have to take in considiration when you play each hand, and adjust it... but like I said if he has image of nit he must take that in his advantage and start opening more, and than when they see that he is opening a lot of hands, than he should tight up his range, and go like that in circle... and like someone says... 1,5 or so BB will not take you anything... you should be in push fold position around 10BB ( it depends again on situation... sometimes you have to open shove with 20BB) there is a lot of things you have to learn... and offcourse its hard to play for you in big tournament if you dont have enough BR and I understand how you end up in 1,5BB situation, but thats why you have to learn a lot, and dont think about money when you play tournament... you just have to push all in for example AJ from mid position with 10BB you cannot open fold it, or just fold it... you must take risk and never allow yourself to be with such a little stack... thats huge mistake I see evrywhere from unexpirience players...
