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peterbirksSaturday nights are duff for ring-game poker. From about 5pm Saturday afternoon through to 11pm, every site is tough.
So I did a scour and came up tiwht four tournies where I could splurge my player points - a 500 point tourney on Paradise (1900 entrants, 10 prices paid up to $2500 for first), - two 40 FPP tournies on Stars (600 and 500 entrants each, six places paid of 4000 FPPS), plus a 275 turbo pointer on UB (50 plavces paid for 600 entrants, no idea how much, but not a lot, about $100 for first).
Playing four tournaments simultaneously at three different sites is quite entertaining, and, since none of it mattered very much, I had little emotional attachment to any of them, although it's nice to think that I have 10 entries' worth to the Paradise tournies. These have a theoretical value of $2.50 apiece, or a potential value of quite a lot if you make the final table. That's as it should be.
Of course, I did bugger all in any of them, with my normal ability for losing 50:50s continuing its run. Well, I lie, since I remain in the hunt in one of the Stars tournies with 56 players left. I'm playing my own comfortable style, which I still think is the only one I can handle in tournaments. It's very different from anything recommended in any of the textbooks, but it's the only style that keeps me in the black -- kind of a "perpetually in the bottom half" for hours on end, before either going out, or luck-boxing my way through three or four double-ups to near the chip lead. I can honestly say that I have never won a tournament from having a big stack early on. But I've won quite a few from short-stacked positions, even eighth out of nine going into the final table.
Hmm, currently 34th out of 54 ... so the game-plan is going well...
So I did a scour and came up tiwht four tournies where I could splurge my player points - a 500 point tourney on Paradise (1900 entrants, 10 prices paid up to $2500 for first), - two 40 FPP tournies on Stars (600 and 500 entrants each, six places paid of 4000 FPPS), plus a 275 turbo pointer on UB (50 plavces paid for 600 entrants, no idea how much, but not a lot, about $100 for first).
Playing four tournaments simultaneously at three different sites is quite entertaining, and, since none of it mattered very much, I had little emotional attachment to any of them, although it's nice to think that I have 10 entries' worth to the Paradise tournies. These have a theoretical value of $2.50 apiece, or a potential value of quite a lot if you make the final table. That's as it should be.
Of course, I did bugger all in any of them, with my normal ability for losing 50:50s continuing its run. Well, I lie, since I remain in the hunt in one of the Stars tournies with 56 players left. I'm playing my own comfortable style, which I still think is the only one I can handle in tournaments. It's very different from anything recommended in any of the textbooks, but it's the only style that keeps me in the black -- kind of a "perpetually in the bottom half" for hours on end, before either going out, or luck-boxing my way through three or four double-ups to near the chip lead. I can honestly say that I have never won a tournament from having a big stack early on. But I've won quite a few from short-stacked positions, even eighth out of nine going into the final table.
Hmm, currently 34th out of 54 ... so the game-plan is going well...
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I feel it
Date: 2006-08-20 04:01 am (UTC)Re: I feel it
Date: 2006-08-20 08:28 am (UTC)I've given up subtlety. I had 9000 in chips (about 3000 below average) and the blinds were 200/400 with a 50 ante. I was one off the button and it was passed round to me. I think that most players would feel that they had enough "in play" to be able to make a raise to 1200 or maybe just a 1000. And perhaps in bigger cash tournaments this would work. But in these Player Point games, especially with a big stack in the big blind, they are likely to call you with anything half-way reasonable, so you might as well go for the double-through.
Still, a fun way to pass a couple of hours on a Saturday evening that didn't leave me with a "what a waste of time" feeling. While the overlay on these tournies is rubbish, if you combine four of them together, the EV is almost worthwhile. In addition, I didn't get bored as I normally do in these tournaments. Let's be honest, playing these things is hardly Ph.D stuff. I can see why SnG players go mad with boredom if they play too many, because nearly all my plays in the three hours (actually, ALL of them, now I come to think of it) were automatic. Four tables in limit gives me a problem, but I reckon that I could handle six of these MTTs.
PJ
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Date: 2006-08-20 10:13 am (UTC)If, as you observed, you have a heap of these things going, then it's less of a grind and you're less tempted to get involved through boredom or mental pressure build-up.
It's mostly about not doing anything stupid, rather than making great moves, unless you play constant tournaments, in which case you may be correct to gamble for an early big stack. Oh, and recognising that something that would be stupid in the first hand may very well be the best possible play in the 200th.