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Forum: Multi-table Tournaments 12-30-2005, 12:23 PM
Replies: 9
Views: 127
Posted By McMelchior
Re: Foxwoods $100 MTT - going broke in level 1 w/ TPTK

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Guess I'm too tight. Cause, I'm not calling 5 X BB pre flop w/ AQos...

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The point is not about calling AQ PF for 5xBB. It's about calling AQ for 6% of your stack PF with...
Forum: Multi-table Tournaments 12-30-2005, 10:30 AM
Replies: 9
Views: 127
Posted By McMelchior
Re: Foxwoods $100 MTT - going broke in level 1 w/ TPTK

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Most likely I'd fold to a PF raise that early in the tournament.

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C'mon guys, this is a low buy-in live weekly tournament.

The blinds double every 20 minutes. You're are...
Forum: Multi-table Tournaments 12-29-2005, 03:46 PM
Replies: 12
Views: 204
Posted By McMelchior
Re: Wasting Aces...

You didn't waste your Aces.

You took down a pot of t140, 7xBB, to increase your stack 13%.

That's fine ... much better than losing your whole stack. Believe me, every day I see donks limping...
Forum: Multi-table Tournaments 12-29-2005, 02:06 PM
Replies: 5
Views: 208
Posted By McMelchior
Re: Better learning experience???

OK, I'm a little lost.

You want to play the $1,500 WSOP circuit event to bust your cherry before playing "an event or two" in the Borgata Winter Open event?

And you're asking if you'd be...
Forum: Multi-table Tournaments 12-29-2005, 12:18 PM
Replies: 19
Views: 111
Posted By McMelchior
Re: what would you do in this situation?

What did UTG do?

Assuming he folded I'd probably flat call t1,600 into the t3,800 pot, making the pot t5,800. Small enough to get away from if the flop is in-opportune and he pushes.

20% of the...
Forum: Multi-table Tournaments 12-29-2005, 11:41 AM
Replies: 19
Views: 232
Posted By McMelchior
Re: Your Saw Flop%

Hmmm, I truly believe the percentage should change over the course of a MTT.

At the early levels when the stacks are deep or close to deep I force myself to see flop with a wide range of hands,...
Forum: Multi-table Tournaments 12-29-2005, 10:33 AM
Replies: 9
Views: 101
Posted By McMelchior
Re: Don\'t read if you hate dumb posts. How do I win MTT?

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I'd like to win a big MTT tournament /images/graemlins/crazy.gif. Let's say one at least on the Stars/Party weekly MTT level.

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Are you talking about the $500k/$350k...
Forum: Multi-table Tournaments 12-28-2005, 07:29 PM
Replies: 9
Views: 97
Posted By McMelchior
Re: Playing the opponents hand and not yours.

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Why in the world would you ever fold if he repushed?

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Ahem .... the same occurred to me in the subway going home from work (after posting the article).

Hey, if I was in...
Forum: Multi-table Tournaments 12-28-2005, 06:07 PM
Replies: 9
Views: 97
Posted By McMelchior
Re: Playing the opponents hand and not yours.

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I called a raise of 6k the other day with 89s thinking the guy had AK-AJ. I was on the button and had a 71k stack to do this. I hit TP with the 8 and pushed

[/ QUOTE ]Nobody stops...
Forum: One-table Tournaments 12-28-2005, 03:44 PM
Replies: 23
Views: 330
Posted By McMelchior
Re: Teaching a friend Hold\'em 101 & Basic SnG Strategy from scratch.

What makes for a good learning strategy completely hinges on how your friend is wired.

People are way more different in what way they can learn and what kind of education/training they benefit...
Forum: One-table Tournaments 12-28-2005, 02:32 PM
Replies: 3
Views: 59
Posted By McMelchior
Re: PP of 10\'s on $22 on Stars - advice appreciated

Hmmm, this is not really my home forum, but let me take a few shots:

1) It's poor style to post everybody's handles except for you own. Use the hand converter instead.

2) As already said, don't...
Forum: Multi-table Tournaments 12-28-2005, 10:34 AM
Replies: 6
Views: 218
Posted By McMelchior
Re: Sat bubble play. autocall with AK ?

Assuming there are two more tables the sizes of the short stacks on these are highly relevant. Meaning, if you are the third shortest stack overall and everybody else has like a million in chips,...
Forum: Multi-table Tournaments 12-27-2005, 02:29 PM
Replies: 4
Views: 99
Posted By McMelchior
Re: Call an all-in on the turn w/ scary board?

Villian's range (based on your description of him):
AKd thru A2d, KQd thru KTd, QJd, QTd, JTd, AA-33, A7-A5

I don't have PokerStove at this PC, but I count 124 combos of which you're far ahead of...
Forum: Multi-table Tournaments 12-27-2005, 02:06 PM
Replies: 24
Views: 317
Posted By McMelchior
Re: pushing in the orange zone (PP$150)

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Since the ~3BB raise encourages middle and lower pairs to push, I don't like it.

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For exactly the same reason I like it.

Very big difference between STTs and MTTs.

In...
Forum: Multi-table Tournaments 12-24-2005, 12:29 AM
Replies: 12
Views: 146
Posted By McMelchior
Re: Early in a MTT. how do i play this

You don't play the hand past the flop.

You're not getting the right price, especially because 4 of your "outs" gives you the idiot end of the str8, and might easily cost you your stack. You need...
Forum: Multi-table Tournaments 12-24-2005, 12:20 AM
Replies: 6
Views: 64
Posted By McMelchior
Re: Bottom Set facing Lots of Resistance

MP1 has almost all of his stack in the pot. I wouldn't be surprised to see KQ a good part of the time, but even if you could pin him exclusively on JT you're getting amble odds to call. Easy hand.
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Forum: Brick and Mortar 12-21-2005, 09:41 PM
Replies: 29
Views: 235
Posted By McMelchior
Re: Poll: would you sit at an electronic table at a B&M room?

I saw such a table at the Hard Rock in Hollywood, Fl., for low buy-in SnGs.

I didn't play, but I'd be happy to.

First of all the electronics assures no dealer mistakes, which is already a...
Forum: Multi-table Tournaments 12-20-2005, 10:04 PM
Replies: 19
Views: 86
Posted By McMelchior
Re: Live mutlis, poor players, deviation, taking chances

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I think that not raising with AK or something at a bunch of limpers from CO or button is a really bad play

[/ QUOTE ]I used to agree with you - AK and AQ suited or not should have a...
Forum: Multi-table Tournaments 12-20-2005, 03:51 PM
Replies: 19
Views: 86
Posted By McMelchior
Re: Live mutlis, poor players, deviation, taking chances

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I knew I was a better player than 90% of the field.

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I'm curious how you "knew" that - when you weren't winning?

Tournament poker is poker and tournament. Fearlessly...
Forum: Multi-table Tournaments 12-20-2005, 03:18 PM
Replies: 10
Views: 151
Posted By McMelchior
Re: A.C. Showboat HOB Daily Tournaments

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Love the no ante.

[/ QUOTE ]Why? No Ante means vastly reduced profitability of stealing blinds. Half of my game is gone there. Why would anybody prefer no ante?

Best,

McMelchior...
Forum: Brick and Mortar 12-19-2005, 03:17 PM
Replies: 18
Views: 318
Posted By McMelchior
Re: Tropicana AC a dump?

Make sure to get a room in the West Tower. It's the one put up most recently before the Havana Tower, and is still in OK shape - I've always enjoyed staying there. The North tower rooms are horrible...
Forum: Brick and Mortar 12-19-2005, 03:04 PM
Replies: 4
Views: 141
Posted By McMelchior
Re: AC daily tournaments feedback?

Played the Borgata Sunday Nite yesterday. Nice tournament.

Absolutely decent structure, t5,000 to start (freeze out), 25 min levels, starting at t25/t50.

$85 + $15 buy-in, 76 players, very...
Forum: Multi-table Tournaments 12-17-2005, 02:51 PM
Replies: 20
Views: 100
Posted By McMelchior
Re: Bellagio $1,000 MTT

Congrats! Very nice job!

I played the $1,000 during the WSOP, and it was a tough line-up speckled with pros (I lasted 14 minutes until I donked my AK all-in PF against a late-comer who sat down...
Forum: Multi-table Tournaments 12-17-2005, 01:35 AM
Replies: 8
Views: 58
Posted By McMelchior
Re: Rebuy and Stack Size Strategy? --> good M but poor Q

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I hope the next poker author to introduce a concept using a letter variable dies in some horrible buffet accident.

[/ QUOTE ]Are you trying to be funny? Or do you think "Shania" or...
Forum: Multi-table Tournaments 12-17-2005, 01:16 AM
Replies: 5
Views: 69
Posted By McMelchior
Re: Pwning from the Blinds (too much or just about right?)

As already stated by others, "loose donkeys" are per definition the least profitable type of players to try to bluff off a pot (whereas they're great to have with you when you're value betting).
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