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Forum: One-table Tournaments 08-22-2005, 06:52 PM
Replies: 15
Views: 79
Posted By DownLow
Re: I always seem to bust here. Bad Push?

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you can forfeit your SB here (in my opinion) and still be ok, because you'll still have about 1400 and you can get a better hand and push then.

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Looks to me like he'll...
Forum: One-table Tournaments 05-03-2005, 03:43 PM
Replies: 18
Views: 89
Posted By DownLow
Re: POLL: Blind Stealing Strategy

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Here are my thoughts at this point:
1) Topcop would definetly fold so i knew that i would end up HU if called.


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Unless he wakes up with a monster. However, if this...
Forum: One-table Tournaments 04-28-2005, 04:27 PM
Replies: 17
Views: 96
Posted By DownLow
Re: sneaky trips first hand of a mini step 4

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You appear to be relatively new here,

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Haven't heard that in a while. 1200+ posts and a 2003 reg date usually clear that up for people pretty fast....
Forum: One-table Tournaments 04-28-2005, 04:08 PM
Replies: 15
Views: 77
Posted By DownLow
Re: Questionable limp, overbet flop, weak-tight fold

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Indeed, this is the question. So do you push? Call? Fold?


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I don't like calling here because there are so few cards on the turn to make me feel good...
Forum: One-table Tournaments 04-22-2005, 04:51 PM
Replies: 6
Views: 48
Posted By DownLow
Re: AA hand

I would bet enough to make the flush draw expensive. You have a hand that looks to be good with that flop. There might be some loose players that call your PF reraise with 33 44 55 66 (more likely...
Forum: One-table Tournaments 04-22-2005, 12:55 PM
Replies: 2
Views: 40
Posted By DownLow
Re: Bad spot to overcall?

How can the BB call before the action is to the SB (is the caller actually the button)?

To answer your question, I certainly fold this hand. While UTG is desperate and could be pushing with any...
Forum: Multi-table Tournaments 02-18-2005, 09:04 PM
Replies: 1
Views: 35
Posted By DownLow
Re: Did I make the best decision?

I don't think you HAVE to make your stand here, but if you are going to do it I like the allin preflop. Why give him the chance to draw out on you if you think you are ahead? You either take down...
Forum: Multi-table Tournaments 02-16-2005, 08:08 PM
Replies: 9
Views: 49
Posted By DownLow
Re: How to play these quad As

The reason I limped UTG is because the table had been quite aggressive to that point. There are 2 players on the table with whom I have played before and they are very LAG. I have done the...
Forum: Multi-table Tournaments 02-16-2005, 07:58 PM
Replies: 9
Views: 49
Posted By DownLow
How to play these quad As

OK, here's the hand:
PokerStars No-Limit Hold'em Tourney, Big Blind is t50 (9 handed) converter (http://www.selachian.com/tools/bisonconverter/hhconverter.cgi)

Button (t2160)
SB (t4380)
BB...
Forum: Multi-table Tournaments 02-15-2005, 09:37 PM
Replies: 0
Views: 32
Posted By DownLow
Stalling a valid play?

I want to get some feedback on the subject of stalling during satellite tournaments. I play satellites to get into the weekly Stars $215 and think stalling is a must near the bubble. However, I...
Forum: Multi-table Tournaments 12-09-2004, 04:40 PM
Replies: 11
Views: 71
Posted By DownLow
Re: Help for loose aggressive tournament strategy

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Thanks everyone for the help so far. Only a few hours till tonight's game. There's a second tourney if you bust out of the first early. If you place in the top 3 in the second tourney (out...
Forum: Multi-table Tournaments 12-09-2004, 02:53 PM
Replies: 11
Views: 71
Posted By DownLow
Re: Help for loose aggressive tournament strategy

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about 120 players.


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I've probably played about 25-30 of these tourneys in the past few months and I've made the final table 3 times.
Forum: Multi-table Tournaments 11-23-2004, 03:44 AM
Replies: 5
Views: 43
Posted By DownLow
Re: Terrible hand in currently running PS 11+rebuy-what\'s my line?

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I think you played it fine. The mini-raise reraise sure looks like something that aq doesn't do well against. The converter screwed up my post too.

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I feel like that is...
Forum: Multi-table Tournaments 11-23-2004, 03:31 AM
Replies: 5
Views: 43
Posted By DownLow
Re: Terrible hand in currently running PS 11+rebuy-what\'s my line?

Just busted out in 52nd, AA in SB, stack ~80k blinds 3k/6k big stack (~180k) limps UTG, I make it 14k to go, BB and UTG come along, flop Ks 4 7.
I check BB pushes (about 19k), UTG calls, I push...
Forum: Multi-table Tournaments 11-23-2004, 02:25 AM
Replies: 5
Views: 43
Posted By DownLow
Terrible hand in currently running PS 11+rebuy-what\'s my line?

OK, here's how I played it badly, how should I have played it? I put UTG on a pair and wanted to see a flop rather than pushing pre-flop, but didn't count on the BB getting frisky.

PokerStars...
Forum: Multi-table Tournaments 11-12-2004, 01:26 AM
Replies: 4
Views: 41
Posted By DownLow
Re: Did I play these hands too weakly (or too strongly)?

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HAND 1

Why did you mini-raise here? Because you only had 6s? If you're going to raise - raise. Open for a standard 3-4XBB.


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Yeah, almost all my PF raises are...
Forum: Multi-table Tournaments 11-11-2004, 07:34 PM
Replies: 4
Views: 41
Posted By DownLow
Did I play these hands too weakly (or too strongly)?

I would like some critique on the following hands please. These are hands from the Stars $10 rebuy, 30-40 ppl left from a field of ~900.

I feel I may have played the first two a little weakly and...
Forum: Multi-table Tournaments 11-09-2004, 02:30 PM
Replies: 33
Views: 139
Posted By DownLow
Re: Help settle this argument...

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I don't understand why you think that I'm trying to say that I'm better than everyone else.


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I KNOW for a fact that I am better than most players out...
Forum: Multi-table Tournaments 10-27-2004, 07:31 PM
Replies: 1
Views: 32
Posted By DownLow
Stars comes through

Just got an email from Stars about the technical problems they had a few days ago. They had cancelled several tournaments because of problems they were having. They had refunded the amount of the...
Forum: One-table Tournaments 10-27-2004, 06:59 PM
Replies: 3
Views: 42
Posted By DownLow
How would you play this hand?

Opinions please on the play of the following hand. Early in the tournament, no reads yet:

PokerStars No-Limit Hold'em Tourney, Big Blind is t30 (8 handed) converter...
Forum: One-table Tournaments 10-26-2004, 05:56 PM
Replies: 4
Views: 47
Posted By DownLow
Re: Obligatory \"First x SnGs, how am I doing\" post

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Try filtering your stats to see what your VPip% is for the first three levels.


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Gah! Terrible:
Players: 8 to 9 Blinds: <= 50/100
VP$IP: 30.48
Forum: One-table Tournaments 10-26-2004, 05:32 PM
Replies: 4
Views: 47
Posted By DownLow
Obligatory \"First x SnGs, how am I doing\" post

Long time lurker, recent poster, yada, yada, yada. I have been playing the Stars 5, 10 and 20 single table SnGs. The 20's are a recent move, I feel I have been doing OK but there are certainly some...
Forum: One-table Tournaments 10-26-2004, 04:19 PM
Replies: 6
Views: 47
Posted By DownLow
Re: when will this run end?????

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I am having such a bad run of cards. I'm still very new to SNGs having played just 48. I'm at Pokerstars playing the $5 single tables.

After the first 20 or so I was in the money about...
Forum: One-table Tournaments 10-25-2004, 03:23 PM
Replies: 7
Views: 50
Posted By DownLow
Re: $50 SNG

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I'd like to get your thoughts on the following hand from a $50 SNG. It was the third hand of the game so no real reads.

I'm dealt KQ /images/graemlins/heart.gif in cutoff position with...
Forum: One-table Tournaments 10-22-2004, 02:45 PM
Replies: 25
Views: 113
Posted By DownLow
Re: First three SNGs

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Let's say you start in the big blind, and sitting at your table are Heckel in UTG and Jeckel with the button. You've played Heckel and Jeckel before so you know there modus operandi is to...
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