On behalf of myself and other players who have enjoyed being given your chips i'd say there is nothing wrong with the way you are playing and there is no need to change anything. You know it makes sense. ;-) Posted by achill
In Response to Am i Playing MTTS badley?!! : how can you waste my chips like that after you did me with a/a 4/4/4/ against my trip aces, that`s it your not going to get any more chips off me again lol Posted by spornybol
Ya that was a bit of a cooler for ya, i lost them set over set so pretty hard to get away from that at best of times no matter what stage of tourny hey
In Response to Am i Playing MTTS badley?!! : Hi barbie im a mtt regular here on sky, i'd like to give you one or two tips im sure however young gun will give you a few more in his private message to you (please share young gun lol). Anyhow, don't focus on what place you're currently in but how many big blinds your stack has left. If you find AK and you have a 10,000 stack and blinds are 100/200 well you have 50 big blinds. If someone is giving you action in a pre flop you might be inclined to re raise or shove putting them all in with your hand. But do you really need to make this play? Your opponent has for arguments sake a 3000 stack one third of yours. With so much yet to play in the tournament there's no real need for you to be aggressive here. I believe it was Eyman who once said in a blog you can tilt even when you're doing well in an MTT and you should be wary of this. I see many chip leaders trying to win it too soon in spots like this and they lose half their stacks to flips or just bad beated with their AK. So the tip here is don't get committed when you don't really need to. Work around the concept of being aggressive around 20 big blinds or 10 if you're desperate. Don't panic if you're seeing what was your one time highest stack in the tournament becoming an average one. Around the time you're getting busted there's still plenty more time left in the tournament so always look for a better spot and make folds you don't necessarily have to keep flipping to progress. Raise pre flop slightly instead of shoving or limping pre these tips help to keep your stack size healthy. Therefore you should be playing tight at this stage and being selective with your hands. I have to go work now but i hope this helped. Posted by 4fingersAA
Thanks 4fingers, some good stuff to keep in mind i do find myself getting pot committed if a raise aganist a smaller stack sometimes coz it ant to much more to call off if they push, so ill give more thought to the spots i play, cheers
Hi Barbie, good advice from 4fingersAA wil add my bit to it Sounds a bit like you are often getting all your chips in and racing in the mid stage of a tourney. If you get all in ahead 3 times eg AK V AQ then you will normally exit the tourney as you will lose once out of every three times ie 70-30 favourite 3 times out of 10 you will get outdrawn. Try to maintain your chip stack on or around the average stack for the MTT at all times difficult to do all the time but remember the average stack is higher than you think as some players will have a lot more than the average at this stage making your chip stack relatively higher (hope that makes sense lol). If you can get to the money with an average chip stack then you will always be in the running Yes its great when you have a huge stack and can use that to push people around but a lot of the time you will bust out trying to get a big stack. In an MTT the key to success is to avoid racing for your stack whenever possible especially pre flop you should be looking to chip up rather than double up. As for near the bubble well it depends on your table as a rule stay away from big stacks and desperate short stacks if possible try and get chips off players with mid stacks who are treading water its amazing how many players tighten up and blind off a good stack just to min cash hope that helps
Hi Barbie, good advice from 4fingersAA wil add my bit to it Sounds a bit like you are often getting all your chips in and racing in the mid stage of a tourney. If you get all in ahead 3 times eg AK V AQ then you will normally exit the tourney as you will lose once out of every three times ie 70-30 favourite 3 times out of 10 you will get outdrawn. Try to maintain your chip stack on or around the average stack for the MTT at all times difficult to do all the time but remember the average stack is higher than you think as some players will have a lot more than the average at this stage making your chip stack relatively higher (hope that makes sense lol). If you can get to the money with an average chip stack then you will always be in the running Yes its great when you have a huge stack and can use that to push people around but a lot of the time you will bust out trying to get a big stack. In an MTT the key to success is to avoid racing for your stack whenever possible especially pre flop you should be looking to chip up rather than double up. As for near the bubble well it depends on your table as a rule stay away from big stacks and desperate short stacks if possible try and get chips off players with mid stacks who are treading water its amazing how many players tighten up and blind off a good stack just to min cash hope that helps Posted by gixxerk4
chip up rather then double, like it, ya can see your point best to get chips slowly rather race for a big pot which ur gona lose at times even with the best hand, nice one for the advice gixxerk
Im not sure how anyone can advise you how to adjust your game when you have given no info on your game. You may be doing fine, MTTs are swingy you can go ages without cashing, you need a lot of luck to win any individual mtt.
Dont tighten up near bubble, get more aggro. Look for the nits looking to mincash and bully them
As for avoiding getting it in with AK against AQ etc, not getting involved when someone raises and you hold AK it seems pretty stupid to me. There are not too many tourneys you can just keep a healthy stack time by just "chipping up", you are going to have to get it in when you think you have the best of it/ pot odds to do so and hope your luck holds up.
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good advice from 4fingersAA wil add my bit to it
Sounds a bit like you are often getting all your chips in and racing in the mid stage of a tourney.
If you get all in ahead 3 times eg AK V AQ then you will normally exit the tourney as you will lose once out of every three times ie 70-30 favourite 3 times out of 10 you will get outdrawn.
Try to maintain your chip stack on or around the average stack for the MTT at all times difficult to do all the time but remember the average stack is higher than you think as some players will have a lot more than the average at this stage making your chip stack relatively higher (hope that makes sense lol).
If you can get to the money with an average chip stack then you will always be in the running
Yes its great when you have a huge stack and can use that to push people around but a lot of the time you will bust out trying to get a big stack. In an MTT the key to success is to avoid racing for your stack whenever possible especially pre flop you should be looking to chip up rather than double up.
As for near the bubble well it depends on your table as a rule stay away from big stacks and desperate short stacks if possible try and get chips off players with mid stacks who are treading water its amazing how many players tighten up and blind off a good stack just to min cash
hope that helps
Im not sure how anyone can advise you how to adjust your game when you have given no info on your game. You may be doing fine, MTTs are swingy you can go ages without cashing, you need a lot of luck to win any individual mtt.
Dont tighten up near bubble, get more aggro. Look for the nits looking to mincash and bully them
As for avoiding getting it in with AK against AQ etc, not getting involved when someone raises and you hold AK it seems pretty stupid to me. There are not too many tourneys you can just keep a healthy stack time by just "chipping up", you are going to have to get it in when you think you have the best of it/ pot odds to do so and hope your luck holds up.