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How bad would it be to fold every hand on levels 1-3 in a 10+1?
Just like the title says, folding every single hand including monsters for levels 1-3 of your typical Party 10+1? How much would you be costing yourself in the long run, do you think?
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Re: How bad would it be to fold every hand on levels 1-3 in a 10+1?
First I'm really not sure how much it would 'cost' you. Frequently I am dealt cold cards for most of levels 1-3 and I can usually do fine as long as at least am able to get a hand to double up with.
However I think the reason you may be asking this question is that you have had some bad experiences with monsters against the loose $10+1 players. If this is the case, avoid such results oriented thinking. Be happy that you are getting your money in with the best of it w/ AA-QQ and AK. If you run into a bigger hand or get sucked out on, so be it. Just my thoughts, flawed as they may be. --- Mons |
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Re: How bad would it be to fold every hand on levels 1-3 in a 10+1?
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First I'm really not sure how much it would 'cost' you. Frequently I am dealt cold cards for most of levels 1-3 and I can usually do fine as long as at least am able to get a hand to double up with. However I think the reason you may be asking this question is that you have had some bad experiences with monsters against the loose $10+1 players. If this is the case, avoid such results oriented thinking. Be happy that you are getting your money in with the best of it w/ AA-QQ and AK. If you run into a bigger hand or get sucked out on, so be it. Just my thoughts, flawed as they may be. --- Mons [/ QUOTE ] No, it's not out of frustration or anything. It just seems like 10+1s would be just about as beatable if you folded levels 1-3 without regard for your cards, and I was just curious if I was very far off the mark. |
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Re: How bad would it be to fold every hand on levels 1-3 in a 10+1?
Phil Van Sexton was recommending raising to 100-125 PF for this very reason. You'll either pick up the blinds (an improvement over folding) or have a very good chance of winning a good sized pot. There's still some risk, but it seems better than tangling with maniacs post-flop when they're getting implied odds on a 3xBB bet at BB=T$10
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Re: How bad would it be to fold every hand on levels 1-3 in a 10+1?
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Phil Van Sexton was recommending raising to 100-125 PF for this very reason. You'll either pick up the blinds (an improvement over folding) or have a very good chance of winning a good sized pot. There's still some risk, but it seems better than tangling with maniacs post-flop when they're getting implied odds on a 3xBB bet at BB=T$10 [/ QUOTE ] I usually do something similar to this. It works well considering most of the $10+1 players can't get away from AQ and AJ. |
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Re: How bad would it be to fold every hand on levels 1-3 in a 10+1?
not sure about 10, but was playing in a $200 sng the other day, and 3rd place did not enter into one hand! so he won $400.
David |
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Re: How bad would it be to fold every hand on levels 1-3 in a 10+1?
Jeffraider, why not just play only the following 4 hands:
AA, KK, QQ, & AK Besides these four hands, fold all the rest for the first 3 rounds. Would that accomplish the same goal? Oh, and that's just tight poker... |
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Re: How bad would it be to fold every hand on levels 1-3 in a 10+1?
That's actually pretty much what I do now, except I'll limp PPs for 15 or 30 chips purely for set value. Reviewing my last 10 ITM finishes, only 2 of them had me playing a hand before level 4. That's what got me thinking.
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Re: How bad would it be to fold every hand on levels 1-3 in a 10+1?
I've finished ITM several times without winning a hand till round 4 so I imagine it wouldn't hurt me much since I play extremely tight in the first couple of rounds. Don't ask me to do an experiment though since I don't make it a habit to fold monsters.
-Pete |
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Re: How bad would it be to fold every hand on levels 1-3 in a 10+1?
I basically play nothing but AA, KK, QQ or AK in the first three rounds anyway. I sometimes limp in with PPs. Even when I make a hand with those cards, I usually make sure to shut out all the cheesy draws and end up not winning much with them. Most of the time, though, I probably don't enter a pot in the first three rounds anyway, so you probably wouldn't be giving up much...
If you multi-table, you could actually "Sit Out" for the first three rounds (or so) and thus play more tables/hour. Thus, in this case, you could actually GET something for not playing hands early. -wadea |
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