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Hi. I'm going to play a live tourny with about 35 players, $100 freezeout. As i'm quite new to live-playing I hoped someone could give me advice concearning early stages, hints and tips and strategy in general.

Thanks!

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General strategy is a pretty big field.

On a different tangent, the first time I played live was in a free bar tournament that had no prizes awarded. I'd played online for a yeah and a half and probably had a hundred thousand hands under my belt. But every single hand I played in this free no stress tourney, my hands shook. This probably won't happen to you, but if it does don't worry about it.

Also don't worry about looking like a noob, most folks are pretty forgiving of it. If you forget the chip denoms, lost track of how many people came into the pot, whatever don't be affraid to ask.

Finally, my number one noob tip, if you are raising with one large denomination chip (say its 100 to call and you throw in a 500 chip) always say raise. If you don't most of the time that's going to be ruled a call.

And have fun, playing live is a blast!

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