hi tikay just a little pointer in the right direction. i seem to do very well in the sng 10max tables on various sites but when i play live mtts in my local casino i seem to just miss the money. i dont know what im doing wrong but i just fall short. can i go about my mtts in the same way i would a sng? just sit down and pretend its a sng?
Hi M8 I Was Railing You Sky Poller 100 Pound Buy In The Other Night.....How Did You Finish Off?? As I See You Hit Quads Twice In Bout 5 Mins Adder Posted by WHITEADDER
Could you take a look over this and give me your thoughts many thx
10 BB and below: Every play you make should be an allin play. You are either open shoving your whole stack into the middle or your folding. Note that if your shoving over someones raise you need to be paying careful attention to your opponents stack size. If your opponents are good they will rarely be raise folding a stack size below 15 big blinds, so against a winning player you will often have n0 fold equity. If your playing against someone with a large stack they will often spite call you because its a small portion of there chips. The best people to shove over are people with a stack size that can raise fold often IE 15-25bb. Its also worth noting that the lower your stack the less fold equity you should have overall, someone shoving in 4bb from the button against a 15bb stack is going to get called alot wider than someone shoving 10 big blind from the button against a 15bb stack, this is because if the caller loses 10 blinds he is more or less crippled but if he loses 4 blinds he still has a playable stack.
10-15 BB: When there are antis in play it makes stacks shallower, because of this, its correct to be shoving allin preflop with upto a 15bb stack as your only play. If antis do not exist then you should only be raising if you have a hand strong enough to call an allin shove. If you dont, do not open raise, save your stack to give you more leverage when you shove allin or re-steal allin against someone. The only exception is if you are in late position and have a few super nits behind you who wont re-steal often at all.
15-22 BB: Is the smallest stack size where you can consider raise folding. You should generally be raise calling almost all the time with this stack size. There are times when you can raise fold, this tends to be against the tightest and least aggressive opponents who will not re-steal against you. For the most part you will be raise calling.
Starting at 15bb you start to get more fold equity on your allin raises so this is a great size to start re-stealing allin with semi bluff hands that have equity against your opponents raise calling range. You will want to look for spots where:
Your opponents raising range is wide and the likelihood they will fold to your shove is high. On top of this, if you have a tight image and a hand that has equity decent equity against there calling (suited connectors, suited Broadway, pairs, suited aces) then it will be a good spot to re-steal all-in as a semi bluff and should be rather profitable. When called you will usually have around 30%+ equity against their range. This will be a profitable play overall because your opponent will fold to your shove enough times to negate the equity disadvantage you have when called.
22-35 BB: With this stack size you have more room to manoeuvre and you can afford to be open raising more hands to try and steal the blinds and antis and accumulate a larger stack. Other players may be aware that when you have this kind of stack size you should be raise folding more so be ready to get re-stealed all-in on by a wide range when playing against knowledgeable short stacks. If you’re at a table with lots of players who will shove all-in over your open raise you need to adjust by raising less hands overall and playing a tighter game.
It’s also worth noting that re-stealing all-in with this stack size can be a bit too large (Especially if you have players behind you with similar stack sizes to you). If for example you have a hand that is strong enough to want to get all-in against another player in the 25-30bb range, I would 3-bet there original raise to 9-10 times the big blinds and shove all flops no matter what if they don’t get it all-in. The all-in shove would be around pot size or slightly over pot and is completely acceptable.
35BB -45BB: The biggest mistake I see people making with this stack size is 3-betting preflop with the intention of folding to a 4bet. Anytime you put in 8-10 blinds with this stack size preflop and are folding to an all-in raise it seems like it’s too much of your stack and to me, it seems like a costly error, especially if your opponent is 4-bet shoving with a wide range. If you’re playing against the type of opponent who will fold to 90% of 3-bets and will fold strong hands like TT and JJ preflop then this may be a profitable play, however, for the most part though I would not 3-bet fold this stack size.
Also with this stack size you can afford to be playing more hands overall. If it is early game I would still play pretty tight but if it’s at the anti-stage there is still some good value in raising a wide range and taking down the blinds and antis.
Over 45 BB: This stack size allows you to have the most amount of manoeuvrability. You can 3-bet fold and also 4-bet shove over the 3-bets of your opponents (45BB actually is a great stack size to shove over a 9BB 3-bet with lots of fold equity), if you are in the middle or late game with this stack size, chances are you are one of the chip leaders in the tournament and will be able to leverage your stack size to the maximum. Congratulations now go take it down!
Hi Tikay Could you take a look over this and give me your thoughts many thx 10 BB and below: Every play you make should be an allin play. You are either open shoving your whole stack into the middle or your folding. Note that if your shoving over someones raise you need to be paying careful attention to your opponents stack size. If your opponents are good they will rarely be raise folding a stack size below 15 big blinds, so against a winning player you will often have n0 fold equity. If your playing against someone with a large stack they will often spite call you because its a small portion of there chips. The best people to shove over are people with a stack size that can raise fold often IE 15-25bb. Its also worth noting that the lower your stack the less fold equity you should have overall, someone shoving in 4bb from the button against a 15bb stack is going to get called alot wider than someone shoving 10 big blind from the button against a 15bb stack, this is because if the caller loses 10 blinds he is more or less crippled but if he loses 4 blinds he still has a playable stack. 10-15 BB: When there are antis in play it makes stacks shallower, because of this, its correct to be shoving allin preflop with upto a 15bb stack as your only play. If antis do not exist then you should only be raising if you have a hand strong enough to call an allin shove. If you dont, do not open raise, save your stack to give you more leverage when you shove allin or re-steal allin against someone. The only exception is if you are in late position and have a few super nits behind you who wont re-steal often at all. 15-22 BB: Is the smallest stack size where you can consider raise folding. You should generally be raise calling almost all the time with this stack size. There are times when you can raise fold, this tends to be against the tightest and least aggressive opponents who will not re-steal against you. For the most part you will be raise calling. Starting at 15bb you start to get more fold equity on your allin raises so this is a great size to start re-stealing allin with semi bluff hands that have equity against your opponents raise calling range. You will want to look for spots where: Your opponents raising range is wide and the likelihood they will fold to your shove is high. On top of this, if you have a tight image and a hand that has equity decent equity against there calling (suited connectors, suited Broadway, pairs, suited aces) then it will be a good spot to re-steal all-in as a semi bluff and should be rather profitable. When called you will usually have around 30%+ equity against their range. This will be a profitable play overall because your opponent will fold to your shove enough times to negate the equity disadvantage you have when called. 22-35 BB: With this stack size you have more room to manoeuvre and you can afford to be open raising more hands to try and steal the blinds and antis and accumulate a larger stack. Other players may be aware that when you have this kind of stack size you should be raise folding more so be ready to get re-stealed all-in on by a wide range when playing against knowledgeable short stacks. If you’re at a table with lots of players who will shove all-in over your open raise you need to adjust by raising less hands overall and playing a tighter game. It’s also worth noting that re-stealing all-in with this stack size can be a bit too large (Especially if you have players behind you with similar stack sizes to you). If for example you have a hand that is strong enough to want to get all-in against another player in the 25-30bb range, I would 3-bet there original raise to 9-10 times the big blinds and shove all flops no matter what if they don’t get it all-in. The all-in shove would be around pot size or slightly over pot and is completely acceptable. 35BB -45BB: The biggest mistake I see people making with this stack size is 3-betting preflop with the intention of folding to a 4bet. Anytime you put in 8-10 blinds with this stack size preflop and are folding to an all-in raise it seems like it’s too much of your stack and to me, it seems like a costly error, especially if your opponent is 4-bet shoving with a wide range. If you’re playing against the type of opponent who will fold to 90% of 3-bets and will fold strong hands like TT and JJ preflop then this may be a profitable play, however, for the most part though I would not 3-bet fold this stack size. Also with this stack size you can afford to be playing more hands overall. If it is early game I would still play pretty tight but if it’s at the anti-stage there is still some good value in raising a wide range and taking down the blinds and antis. Over 45 BB: This stack size allows you to have the most amount of manoeuvrability. You can 3-bet fold and also 4-bet shove over the 3-bets of your opponents (45BB actually is a great stack size to shove over a 9BB 3-bet with lots of fold equity), if you are in the middle or late game with this stack size, chances are you are one of the chip leaders in the tournament and will be able to leverage your stack size to the maximum. Congratulations now go take it down! shipdchips Posted by shipdchips
Good post op! best read ive had all day ...excellant thorough description glad to know theres some sensible anologies out there on this site.....well done!!
In Response to Re: Ask Tikay? : Keep an eye on the Sky Poker Tour section of the forum, they sometimes announce that the casino will run a live satellite for the SPT game a day or two before the event. At previous events you have also been able to buy in direct on the day as an alternate. Steve Posted by Kiwini4u
In Response to Re: Ask Tikay? : Hi Mr Chips, I think you should follow "academic etiquette" and cite the author and publisher of this article! Kind regards, James. Posted by J-Hartigan
Hi James
Apologies for this but that's how I received it from a friend, which I will try and find out who the author of the post is.
In the mean time I will delete it until I have found this information out, sorry for any wrong doing I was merely trying to ask if this was indeed a good strategy to try and follow.
In Response to Re: Ask Tikay? : Hi James Apologies for this but that's how I received it from a friend, which I will try and find out who the author of the post is. In the mean time I will delete it until I have found this information out, sorry for any wrong doing I was merely trying to ask if this was indeed a good strategy to try and follow. Regards Shipdchips Posted by shipdchips
Hi Mr Ship,
No need to apologise, I can see how this arose.
There are lots of generic pieces out there, thre just get copied from site to site, usually by Affiliates who need material to flesh out there sites.
It is fair to point out to everyone that stuff often gets copied onto the Sky Community from other sites without acknowledgement, & it's not really right to do that, do as thy will be done & all that.
It's cool, & I know you intended no harm.
Oneards & upwards fella, forget about it, & good luck at the Tables. The Sky Poker Tables, that is......
Hi Tikay I seem to remember that at this time last year James Hartigan used to give us a weekly update on who is winning what at the WSOP. I really enjoyed the programme wondered if it was planned for this years series. Incidentally I notice that brits have won 2 bracelets in the first week. Best regards Norman Posted by extraman
Hi Norman,
I think it's now done every week on "Poker News at Ten", which is usually narrated & written by James Hartingan Hartigan.
Pardon the shameless spam, but I go to Vegas on Monday for a 2 week holiday, playing da pokerz 24/7, prior to 2 weeks "work" when the VLV crew arrive on July 4th/5th.
I'll be Tweeting daily, from the Tables, & with up to the moment Vegas news, so if you want to follow it, just sign up to Twitter (it's completely free) & "follow" me, my moniker is Tony_Kendall I think.
In Response to Re: Ask Tikay?: Hi M8 I Was Railing You Sky Poller 100 Pound Buy In The Other Night.....How Did You Finish Off?? As I See You Hit Quads Twice In Bout 5 Mins Adder Posted by WHITEADDER
As Barry noted, I was deservedly whopped Heads-Up by a very fine player in "lyonsbob", aka Michael Lyons, but I absolutely had a ball, it is a terrific Tourney.
I got some mock ribbing for hitting Quads TWICE in about 5 minutes, lol, but I ought to add that I was always ahead, on both occasions, my 9-9 v 7-7, & my 2-2 v A-J. Quads was a bit of a rubdown, though.....
However, I got amazingly lucky several times when I was well beaten, but the Board came a straight.
My biggest suckout though, & it was a whopper, one of the worst I've ever inflicted, was against the eventual winner, when I was trying to nick it every street with J-9, & he was slow-playing J-J. The Board ran out 4-4-3-4-4. Chop it up......That is yer real, genuine, one-outer. Oucho.
I now think I'm up to date on replies on "Ask tikay", & PM's.
On Monday, I'm off to Vegas for a fortnight's poker holiday, my first holiday since I joined Sky Poker, & I'm in my 5th year here now!
So I may be more tardy than usual with the replies, but PLEASE keep the questions coming, if I am not around, there will always be others to assist (ty ty ty), & I'll answer what I can, when I can.
The same applies to PM's - I WILL reply to them all, but sometimes it may take a while.
Tonight, I do my last pre-Vegas Show (I'll be in Vegas for nearly a month, wow), then that's it, the next few days I'll be prepping for my trip. All being well, I'll be playing the Sunday Roller, though.
I really wanted to offer some "Community Staking" so that Sky Poker players could have a little vicarious interest & a "sweat" in the Tourneys I will be playing in Vegas, but after long discussions with the suits, Legal advice fell the wrong way for us, I'm afraid, the Gambling Act (2005) is a many-headed beast, & it will not be possible to do so on Sky Poker Community, though, bizarrely & oddly, I'm free to do it elsewhere if I so desired. But if I do any good, trust me, I'll fund a little Freeroll from the proceeds when I get home.
There will, however, be "something" announced soon, so that Sky Poker players can sort of have a genuine financial interest & a sweat in the success (we hope) of the Viva Las Vegas players. More news soon....
In Response to Re: Ask Tikay? : Not me, Sir, I'm not really into personalised number plates to be honest, not really my thing. Orford has one though - WA55OCK. Tell you who does have a nice one - Ian Frazer, who has, I think, IRA1SE, or something similar. Carlo has CARL0, or some similar derivation, too, he's had it as long as I've known him. If you live in Poole, presumably you are familiar with the Isle of Burbeck - lovely place. Ooh, & Poole Pottery, too. Posted by Tikay10
Hi Tikay, Poole Pottery is oppersit where i work at the kiosk and my manager also plays on sky his name is witsy39. if you are ever on Poole Quay come to the fish and chip kiosk and ask for witsy it would be very nice to meet you. There will be a FREE fish and chips waiting for you....
In Response to Re: Ask Tikay? : Hi Tikay, Poole Pottery is oppersit where i work at the kiosk and my manager also plays on sky his name is witsy39. if you are ever on Poole Quay come to the fish and chip kiosk and ask for witsy it would be very nice to meet you. There will be a FREE fish and chips waiting for you.... Posted by bkboy18
Crikey m8.....Tk normally steals all his chips never mind you giving some free ones as well,.......he's gonna win every game in sight now,.....heavens forbid !.......:)-
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thanks alot, jonny222
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tikay came 2nd
Could you take a look over this and give me your thoughts many thx
10 BB and below: Every play you make should be an allin play. You are either open shoving your whole stack into the middle or your folding. Note that if your shoving over someones raise you need to be paying careful attention to your opponents stack size. If your opponents are good they will rarely be raise folding a stack size below 15 big blinds, so against a winning player you will often have n0 fold equity. If your playing against someone with a large stack they will often spite call you because its a small portion of there chips. The best people to shove over are people with a stack size that can raise fold often IE 15-25bb. Its also worth noting that the lower your stack the less fold equity you should have overall, someone shoving in 4bb from the button against a 15bb stack is going to get called alot wider than someone shoving 10 big blind from the button against a 15bb stack, this is because if the caller loses 10 blinds he is more or less crippled but if he loses 4 blinds he still has a playable stack.
10-15 BB: When there are antis in play it makes stacks shallower, because of this, its correct to be shoving allin preflop with upto a 15bb stack as your only play. If antis do not exist then you should only be raising if you have a hand strong enough to call an allin shove. If you dont, do not open raise, save your stack to give you more leverage when you shove allin or re-steal allin against someone. The only exception is if you are in late position and have a few super nits behind you who wont re-steal often at all.
15-22 BB: Is the smallest stack size where you can consider raise folding. You should generally be raise calling almost all the time with this stack size. There are times when you can raise fold, this tends to be against the tightest and least aggressive opponents who will not re-steal against you. For the most part you will be raise calling.
Starting at 15bb you start to get more fold equity on your allin raises so this is a great size to start re-stealing allin with semi bluff hands that have equity against your opponents raise calling range. You will want to look for spots where:
Your opponents raising range is wide and the likelihood they will fold to your shove is high. On top of this, if you have a tight image and a hand that has equity decent equity against there calling (suited connectors, suited Broadway, pairs, suited aces) then it will be a good spot to re-steal all-in as a semi bluff and should be rather profitable. When called you will usually have around 30%+ equity against their range. This will be a profitable play overall because your opponent will fold to your shove enough times to negate the equity disadvantage you have when called.
22-35 BB: With this stack size you have more room to manoeuvre and you can afford to be open raising more hands to try and steal the blinds and antis and accumulate a larger stack. Other players may be aware that when you have this kind of stack size you should be raise folding more so be ready to get re-stealed all-in on by a wide range when playing against knowledgeable short stacks. If you’re at a table with lots of players who will shove all-in over your open raise you need to adjust by raising less hands overall and playing a tighter game.
It’s also worth noting that re-stealing all-in with this stack size can be a bit too large (Especially if you have players behind you with similar stack sizes to you). If for example you have a hand that is strong enough to want to get all-in against another player in the 25-30bb range, I would 3-bet there original raise to 9-10 times the big blinds and shove all flops no matter what if they don’t get it all-in. The all-in shove would be around pot size or slightly over pot and is completely acceptable.
35BB -45BB: The biggest mistake I see people making with this stack size is 3-betting preflop with the intention of folding to a 4bet. Anytime you put in 8-10 blinds with this stack size preflop and are folding to an all-in raise it seems like it’s too much of your stack and to me, it seems like a costly error, especially if your opponent is 4-bet shoving with a wide range. If you’re playing against the type of opponent who will fold to 90% of 3-bets and will fold strong hands like TT and JJ preflop then this may be a profitable play, however, for the most part though I would not 3-bet fold this stack size.
Also with this stack size you can afford to be playing more hands overall. If it is early game I would still play pretty tight but if it’s at the anti-stage there is still some good value in raising a wide range and taking down the blinds and antis.
Over 45 BB: This stack size allows you to have the most amount of manoeuvrability. You can 3-bet fold and also 4-bet shove over the 3-bets of your opponents (45BB actually is a great stack size to shove over a 9BB 3-bet with lots of fold equity), if you are in the middle or late game with this stack size, chances are you are one of the chip leaders in the tournament and will be able to leverage your stack size to the maximum. Congratulations now go take it down!
shipdchips
Hi James
Apologies for this but that's how I received it from a friend, which I will try and find out who the author of the post is.
In the mean time I will delete it until I have found this information out, sorry for any wrong doing I was merely trying to ask if this was indeed a good strategy to try and follow.
Regards
Shipdchips
Orford has one though - WA55OCK.
Tell you who does have a nice one - Ian Frazer, who has, I think, IRA1SE, or something similar.
Carlo has CARL0, or some similar derivation, too, he's had it as long as I've known him.
If you live in Poole, presumably you are familiar with the Isle of Burbeck - lovely place. Ooh, & Poole Pottery, too.
No need to apologise, I can see how this arose.
There are lots of generic pieces out there, thre just get copied from site to site, usually by Affiliates who need material to flesh out there sites.
It is fair to point out to everyone that stuff often gets copied onto the Sky Community from other sites without acknowledgement, & it's not really right to do that, do as thy will be done & all that.
It's cool, & I know you intended no harm.
Oneards & upwards fella, forget about it, & good luck at the Tables. The Sky Poker Tables, that is......
PS - FWIW, the article was a good one.
I think it's now done every week on "Poker News at Ten", which is usually narrated & written by James Hartingan Hartigan.
Pardon the shameless spam, but I go to Vegas on Monday for a 2 week holiday, playing da pokerz 24/7, prior to 2 weeks "work" when the VLV crew arrive on July 4th/5th.
I'll be Tweeting daily, from the Tables, & with up to the moment Vegas news, so if you want to follow it, just sign up to Twitter (it's completely free) & "follow" me, my moniker is Tony_Kendall I think.
Hi M8 I Was Railing You Sky Poller 100 Pound Buy In The Other Night.....How Did You Finish Off?? As I See You Hit Quads Twice In Bout 5 Mins
Posted by WHITEADDER
As Barry noted, I was deservedly whopped Heads-Up by a very fine player in "lyonsbob", aka Michael Lyons, but I absolutely had a ball, it is a terrific Tourney.
I got some mock ribbing for hitting Quads TWICE in about 5 minutes, lol, but I ought to add that I was always ahead, on both occasions, my 9-9 v 7-7, & my 2-2 v A-J. Quads was a bit of a rubdown, though.....
However, I got amazingly lucky several times when I was well beaten, but the Board came a straight.
My biggest suckout though, & it was a whopper, one of the worst I've ever inflicted, was against the eventual winner, when I was trying to nick it every street with J-9, & he was slow-playing J-J. The Board ran out 4-4-3-4-4. Chop it up......That is yer real, genuine, one-outer. Oucho.
Hi Guys,
I now think I'm up to date on replies on "Ask tikay", & PM's.
On Monday, I'm off to Vegas for a fortnight's poker holiday, my first holiday since I joined Sky Poker, & I'm in my 5th year here now!
So I may be more tardy than usual with the replies, but PLEASE keep the questions coming, if I am not around, there will always be others to assist (ty ty ty), & I'll answer what I can, when I can.
The same applies to PM's - I WILL reply to them all, but sometimes it may take a while.
Tonight, I do my last pre-Vegas Show (I'll be in Vegas for nearly a month, wow), then that's it, the next few days I'll be prepping for my trip. All being well, I'll be playing the Sunday Roller, though.
I really wanted to offer some "Community Staking" so that Sky Poker players could have a little vicarious interest & a "sweat" in the Tourneys I will be playing in Vegas, but after long discussions with the suits, Legal advice fell the wrong way for us, I'm afraid, the Gambling Act (2005) is a many-headed beast, & it will not be possible to do so on Sky Poker Community, though, bizarrely & oddly, I'm free to do it elsewhere if I so desired. But if I do any good, trust me, I'll fund a little Freeroll from the proceeds when I get home.
There will, however, be "something" announced soon, so that Sky Poker players can sort of have a genuine financial interest & a sweat in the success (we hope) of the Viva Las Vegas players. More news soon....
Go and have a ball and win a hatful of dollars.....hope you win big style...:)
Oh no.....are you leaving Richard.......the poker room will be in mayhem by the time you come back !