Under the gun is the new button in tournaments. Re-stealing from the SB is a bluff 80% of the time. Squeezing from the BB versus a CO raise and Button call is a bluff 91.94% of the time.
I think almost anyone can be a successful tournament player.
You could rail a couple $109 re-buys and basically pick up all you need to know.
The difference between the people who succeed and the people who don't is patience, a little bit of reasoning, and a lot of running good.
Full stacked cash games are and always will be the true test of a good poker player.
The rest is all luck and timing.
Wednesday, October 31, 2007
Day 1
$500 may be a bit lofty unless I start getting stakes in $4.40 180 Man SnG's where first place pays around $330.
Right now all I can get are $1.10 45 Man Turbos and I think first place is a whopping $14.
I didn't even play this low when I made my first ever deposit to PartyPoker. The play is terrible but it's essentially a push/fold event at the core. All SnG's are.
Your goal when a SnG first begins isn't to win - it's to cash. Playing supertight in the early levels is optimal. Only after securing one of those spots do you focus on winning, and by that point the push/fold strategy has already begun so it comes down to your M and your luck.
I haven't looked on SharkScope yet because I really don't care, but I know my ROI is positive because I've "cashed" in three of them. Heh. It's pretty funny shipping like $2.50 to the staker and getting an IM from them thanking me.
The site also does what are called "Heebs" ... I don't know what the fuck it stands for. All I know is that the staker gives you cash and you have the freedom to play whatever you'd like with that stake, as opposed to the staker making specific requests. The smallest "Heebs" are around $10 and stakers treat them like gold commodities. It's probably going to be a while before I get one of those.
However, I've seen some as high as $1000 so this might turn into a long-term side project for me. Plus you can sell pieces of yourself on that site even if you're only a cash game player.
My pokerdb.com MTT results are already pretty solid and I'm a very good cash game player up to and including the 5-10 NL level (although I'm a total fucking nit at 5-10) but the stakers on neverbeg.com care more about OPR.com and I have never played on PokerStars prior to this.
It's a fun little challenge. Can I succeed at micro stakes? Probably. All I need to do is play TAG and never bluff - but my usual style is LAG and lots of bluffing. We'll see how that goes.
Right now all I can get are $1.10 45 Man Turbos and I think first place is a whopping $14.
I didn't even play this low when I made my first ever deposit to PartyPoker. The play is terrible but it's essentially a push/fold event at the core. All SnG's are.
Your goal when a SnG first begins isn't to win - it's to cash. Playing supertight in the early levels is optimal. Only after securing one of those spots do you focus on winning, and by that point the push/fold strategy has already begun so it comes down to your M and your luck.
I haven't looked on SharkScope yet because I really don't care, but I know my ROI is positive because I've "cashed" in three of them. Heh. It's pretty funny shipping like $2.50 to the staker and getting an IM from them thanking me.
The site also does what are called "Heebs" ... I don't know what the fuck it stands for. All I know is that the staker gives you cash and you have the freedom to play whatever you'd like with that stake, as opposed to the staker making specific requests. The smallest "Heebs" are around $10 and stakers treat them like gold commodities. It's probably going to be a while before I get one of those.
However, I've seen some as high as $1000 so this might turn into a long-term side project for me. Plus you can sell pieces of yourself on that site even if you're only a cash game player.
My pokerdb.com MTT results are already pretty solid and I'm a very good cash game player up to and including the 5-10 NL level (although I'm a total fucking nit at 5-10) but the stakers on neverbeg.com care more about OPR.com and I have never played on PokerStars prior to this.
It's a fun little challenge. Can I succeed at micro stakes? Probably. All I need to do is play TAG and never bluff - but my usual style is LAG and lots of bluffing. We'll see how that goes.
Monday, October 29, 2007
Starting from Scratch
Over the summer my bankroll was in the lower 5 figures and I was playing 3/6 NL and big buy-in MTT's.
Through a series of events, I had to fully cash out and pay for a lot of things - car repairs, credit card payments, bills, etc.
I have a few thousand dollars with which to start another bankroll, but first I'm going to try something new.
I signed up for a site called neverbeg.com which is essentially a staking site for micro MTT's on PokerStars.
I'm going to play freerolls and go through neverbeg.com for the rest of 2007 to see if I can put together any semblance of a bankroll. My goal is $500. We'll see what happens.
Through a series of events, I had to fully cash out and pay for a lot of things - car repairs, credit card payments, bills, etc.
I have a few thousand dollars with which to start another bankroll, but first I'm going to try something new.
I signed up for a site called neverbeg.com which is essentially a staking site for micro MTT's on PokerStars.
I'm going to play freerolls and go through neverbeg.com for the rest of 2007 to see if I can put together any semblance of a bankroll. My goal is $500. We'll see what happens.
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