3 final tables, 3 1st places

[betgo]

In the last 10 days, 1 have made 3 final tables, and won all 3 tournaments, all in fairly small buyin events I was multitabling. These were in NLHE and limit high Omaha tournaments on Stars and a PLO tournament on Paradise.

Some of this is variance, but it seems a little odd. I don't mean to brag, and it is not a super accomplishment.
I guess this is the way you want it to work, as the money is in the top prizes.

I think part of it is that I was playing for the top prizes. A lot of people play cautiously or for place with less than 50 players left, and I was taking advantage of that.

In all cases I wasn't a huge stack early on, but I came to the final table with atleast an average stack. In the limit Omaha tournament, I was the leader going into the final table.

In the PLO tournament, I was in last place for about 30 minutes in the tournmant. With 40 players left I had 5xBB and the next player had 10xBB. I was waiting for big hands to raise or reraise with or chances to open raise with strong hands. That approach worked.

In all cases, my chip position at the final table didn't change a lot until it got 4 handed or less. I think I play better short handed than most people in this level of tournament. Particularly, people didn't seem to know how to play Omaha short handed. In most limit Omaha cash games, and for most of the tournament, the play is loose, and you just play if you have something and fold if you don't. That was how my opponents were playing short handed in that tournament, but also in the others. I was stealing the pots where no one hit, and they were paying me off big when I made a big hand. They were playing looser short handed, but not aggressively enough.

[Tom Bayes]

Nice work. I must admit I'm still trying for my first PokerStars MTT win and I've played an embarassingly high number of donkey-level MTTs there and I'm now in double-digits for FTs. I do have several wins at other sites, so I'm not totally incapable of the feat [img]/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img]

Many of the players that make it to the final tables in these events are tight ABC players who don't make stupid moves and are solid at full tables but often can't adjust there game once the stacks are shallow and the FT is short-handed. I used to be (and maybe I still am) this guy.

The very first time I ever final-tabled at Stars was about 2 years ago in a $1 Stud H/L. I was inexperienced then but had read up on the basics of hi-lo and played total ABC poker. Once I got HU, I played far too cautiously, waiting for monsters that never came, and got creamed by my opponent. I then posted at 2+2 bemoaning my fate. Some guy named "Greg (Fossilman)" (doesn't post as much as he used to) told me "When in doubt, be aggressive".

[HesseJam]

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I don't mean to brag,

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Absolutely not!