Stud WCOOP today

[Bartholow]

At 3 on Pokerstars. Anyone else playing? I played in a few satellites, bot are the stud players bad. Unfortunately pairs didn't hold up and 4 flushes in those crazy multiway pots never hit. Still did ok, but I'll be buying in directly /images/graemlins/smile.gif.

[jon_1van]

Couldn't get off work /images/graemlins/frown.gif

good luck

[Jeffage]

Does anyone know why they hold these tournaments during the day when most people are working? Very irritating, because I would have definitely played this.

Jeff

[calidist]

I'm thinking about it. Anyone play in it last year? If so, what did you think? I've done extremely well with the 33$ and 55$ Party SNGs, but I have not played in any larger Stud MTTs. How do you think it will differ?

[jon_1van]

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I'm thinking about it. Anyone play in it last year? If so, what did you think? I've done extremely well with the 33$ and 55$ Party SNGs, but I have not played in any larger Stud MTTs. How do you think it will differ?

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SNG's is much more about bubble play. To do well in big tourneys you have to try to get a big stack. This way you can ::

-wait for big hands
-make a bunch of money on big hands (instead of going AI for 3 BB)
-say alive when you lose a hand

In general you will/should be able to do this 1 of 2 ways
-steal very frequently on a tight table
-play monsters on a loose table.

I'd much rather have a tight table that I can steal from because that involves alot less risk. When the opponents are loose sometimes you are gonna have to hope you high pair stands up against 2 opponents or more.

[BeerMoney]

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Does anyone know why they hold these tournaments during the day when most people are working? Very irritating, because I would have definitely played this.

Jeff

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QUIT!

[dogsballs]

I'm in. No idea what to expect but should be worth a swing. I think a lot will be those rich HE players just wanting to play as many wcoop events as possible.

[calidist]

What is your SN for Stars? I'm playing it...

SN = "Djloiq"

Best of luck.

[mscags]

I think waiting for big hands and playing pretty tight will be a good strategy for this one since you get 2500 chips and the levels only move up every 30 mins

[Bartholow]

I guess I'll reveal that my Stars name is CrimeThInc. GL all!

[jon_1van]

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I think waiting for big hands and playing pretty tight will be a good strategy for this one since you get 2500 chips and the levels only move up every 30 mins

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You get a special structure for WCOOP events??

Now I really want to play...ahhh

[mscags]

Yeah, I think it is a great structure. I really want to play in the H/L event on Wed but it is a 500 buy in and I don't want to fork up that much cash so I need to win a sat. Also I have to skip a class...oh well.

[jon_1van]

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Yeah, I think it is a great structure. I really want to play in the H/L event on Wed but it is a 500 buy in and I don't want to fork up that much cash so I need to win a sat. Also I have to skip a class...oh well.

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Skipping class is so much easier than skipping work. But doing either is pretty retarded

[mscags]

unless it is the class I'm in right now and I keep wanting to jam my pen in my eye......

[Quicksilvre]

Interesting that they have a $300 Stud event and a $500 Stud-8 event. Perhaps it ought to be the other way around?

[Bartholow]

So far the play is much closer to what I'm used to... a bit too loose but people will fold, I've even successfully semi-bluffed. The ante structures are such that you don't want to play TOO tight which is also something I like.

At first limit increase I have T2635.

[arcticfox]

I'm watching you, just wished you gl on the table but you are obviously concentrating too hard to notice!

[dogsballs]

Chipping along. Coupla hands got me to 3.4k at 1st break.

[Bartholow]

At the second break I have T2995, just below average. My aces haven't been making second pairs, but I also haven't been playing great I think. Play still seems relatively loose.

[dogsballs]

I'd almost forgotten how slow building a stack is with limit games.

not many good hands, but one ambush with trip 6's made on 4th helped a lot when I got paid off. 4.5k at 2nd break.

[dogsballs]

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At the second break I have T2995, just below average. My aces haven't been making second pairs, but I also haven't been playing great I think. Play still seems relatively loose.

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Yeah, I'm a bit surprised everyone's still so loose with betting and paying off 2 hrs in.

[Bartholow]

I'm out almost 3 hours in. I think I suck vs. ppl who don't fold. A few key hands could have of course turned things around though.

[calidist]

Oddly... right when Bart busted, they moved me to his former seat. Pretty low on chips at the moment though... 2.7k. I've gotten no hands.

[dogsballs]

Two playable hands in the last hour. About 40% of the rest of the time I've been the bring-in. 2.8k. Need to move some chips - going down swinging with garbage seems the most likely scenario.

[beta1607]

How far are you from the bubble?

[calidist]

3.4k... Ran into rolled tres with kings up. Ick.

[calidist]

Far. Little under 300 left. 72 places pay.

[dogsballs]

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How far are you from the bubble?

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we're at 290 from the original 600-odd. 72 spots pay.

oh, just got buried AA...urgh , lost to 89J

[dogsballs]

crippled at 560 chips after he caught two J's

[jon_1van]

nice double up with.....

dueces...gl

[dogsballs]

doubled up w K2/2 as the bring in...unimproved at the river.

[dogsballs]

2nd double up. TT66 dodges the flush.

[dogsballs]

gonna havta go with the next semi-garbage hand. The others have been all totally garbage.


here it is 55/A... raise!!


well, the same resident luckbox just sucked out on me again. Out about 190th. Frustrating and disappointing.
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[calidist]

Out #181. Unbelievable bad run. Four flushes five times on fourth street and cannot hit one. Final hand, AAQs vs. 589 and naturally get sucked out for the last k.

[randomstumbl]

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Interesting that they have a $300 Stud event and a $500 Stud-8 event. Perhaps it ought to be the other way around?

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I don't play on Stars a ton, but I'm pretty sure they have way more stud/8 action than stud. So, it kind of makes sense that they make stud/8 the bigger event. It is interesting to see how online poker differs from B&M though.