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Satellite strategy
Only 7 seats go to the 500k party tourney. 9 people left. What's your general strategy from this point on considering stack sizes/blinds and structure? Stay aggressive? Passive and hope others bust?
Party Poker No-Limit Hold'em Tourney, Big Blind is t8000 (9 handed) converter MP3 (t35780) CO (t215789) Button (t52247) SB (t97744) BB (t75372) UTG (t40140) UTG+1 (t112531) MP1 (t73353) Hero (t58044) Preflop: Hero is MP2 with 5[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img], K[img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img]. <font color="#CC3333">UTG raises to t16000</font>, <font color="#666666">8 folds</font>. Final Pot: t28000 |
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Re: Satellite strategy
Well, of course you fold that hand. But you can't stay passive -- you are really one of the short stacks. It's hard to give general advice here, but you need to be looking for opportunities to steal the blinds. It's unlikely that you are going to fold into one of the seats.
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Re: Satellite strategy
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Well, of course you fold that hand. But you can't stay passive -- you are really one of the short stacks. It's hard to give general advice here, but you need to be looking for opportunities to steal the blinds. It's unlikely that you are going to fold into one of the seats. [/ QUOTE ] I don't think I've ever played for a satellite seat, so I didn't push the normal situations that I would. The guy in the big blind was the dominate chip leader, and he was calling a fair amount of bets. So now with only one person left to bust, how would you play? [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img] Party Poker No-Limit Hold'em Tourney, Big Blind is t10000 (8 handed) converter SB (t291569) BB (t72247) UTG (t93744) UTG+1 (t95372) MP1 (t16140) MP2 (t87531) CO (t58353) Hero (t46044) Preflop: Hero is Button with 7[img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img], 4[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img]. <font color="#666666">2 folds</font>, MP1 calls [t16140] , <font color="#666666">5 folds</font>. Final Pot: t15000 |
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Re: Satellite strategy
theres a guy that has an M of 1 (well, a little more, but close enough). Theres no way i'm playing a hand when he's still at that level. He's about to go bust, and as soon as he does, you win the tournamnet.
Once he doubled, i probably STILL wouldn't play a hand, as i'd still be bigger than him. Exceptions to this would be KK+ (maybe should be AA only) in lp. |
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Re: Satellite strategy
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theres a guy that has an M of 1 (well, a little more, but close enough). Theres no way i'm playing a hand when he's still at that level. He's about to go bust, and as soon as he does, you win the tournamnet. Once he doubled, i probably STILL wouldn't play a hand, as i'd still be bigger than him. Exceptions to this would be KK+ (maybe should be AA only) in lp. [/ QUOTE ] That's precisely my dilema here. He's about to bust in 3 more hands. Obviously fold unless, like you said, KK or AA. Unfortunetly I must have been playing with morans or something because he pushed next hand and BB didn't call for an extra 600 in chips (I almost puked). Then he did indeed double with his A7 vs QQ. |
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Re: Satellite strategy
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[ QUOTE ] Well, of course you fold that hand. But you can't stay passive -- you are really one of the short stacks. It's hard to give general advice here, but you need to be looking for opportunities to steal the blinds. It's unlikely that you are going to fold into one of the seats. [/ QUOTE ] I don't think I've ever played for a satellite seat, so I didn't push the normal situations that I would. The guy in the big blind was the dominate chip leader, and he was calling a fair amount of bets. So now with only one person left to bust, how would you play? [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img] Party Poker No-Limit Hold'em Tourney, Big Blind is t10000 (8 handed) converter SB (t291569) BB (t72247) UTG (t93744) UTG+1 (t95372) MP1 (t16140) MP2 (t87531) CO (t58353) Hero (t46044) Preflop: Hero is Button with 7[img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img], 4[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img]. <font color="#666666">2 folds</font>, MP1 calls [t16140] , <font color="#666666">5 folds</font>. Final Pot: t15000 [/ QUOTE ] Fold and it's not even close. SB has a big stack and call call ~12k to get everyone in and BB only has to call ~6k more for the same reason. If MP1 triples up though, you have to steal. If a big stack prevents you from stealing, you have to adjust and steal either from earlier position or even from the blinds if the situation's right. IMO, you have one move when you can not fold into the seat and you <10BB left and no other immediately-in-danger short stack, and that is: PUSH!! |
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Re: Satellite strategy
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[ QUOTE ] [ QUOTE ] Well, of course you fold that hand. But you can't stay passive -- you are really one of the short stacks. It's hard to give general advice here, but you need to be looking for opportunities to steal the blinds. It's unlikely that you are going to fold into one of the seats. [/ QUOTE ] I don't think I've ever played for a satellite seat, so I didn't push the normal situations that I would. The guy in the big blind was the dominate chip leader, and he was calling a fair amount of bets. So now with only one person left to bust, how would you play? [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img] Party Poker No-Limit Hold'em Tourney, Big Blind is t10000 (8 handed) converter SB (t291569) BB (t72247) UTG (t93744) UTG+1 (t95372) MP1 (t16140) MP2 (t87531) CO (t58353) Hero (t46044) Preflop: Hero is Button with 7[img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img], 4[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img]. <font color="#666666">2 folds</font>, MP1 calls [t16140] , <font color="#666666">5 folds</font>. Final Pot: t15000 [/ QUOTE ] Fold and it's not even close. SB has a big stack and call call ~12k to get everyone in and BB only has to call ~6k more for the same reason. If MP1 triples up though, you have to steal. If a big stack prevents you from stealing, you have to adjust and steal either from earlier position or even from the blinds if the situation's right. IMO, you have one move when you can not fold into the seat and you <10BB left and no other immediately-in-danger short stack, and that is: PUSH!! [/ QUOTE ] I know I'm folding this hand of course. MP1 has 1 blind round left and his blinds are coming up in 2 more hands. |
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Now were stuck with one 8 people left
Short stack doubled up a couple times, now we're the short stack. Are we pushing this hand?
Party Poker No-Limit Hold'em Tourney, Big Blind is t10000 (8 handed) converter SB (t311569) BB (t57247) UTG (t93744) UTG+1 (t120372) MP1 (t42280) MP2 (t72531) CO (t32213) Hero (t31044) Preflop: Hero is Button with Q[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img], 3[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img]. <font color="#666666">4 folds</font>. Hero? |
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Re: Now were stuck with one 8 people left
no antes, and SB could be a [censored] and call w/ random A or K. (i'm pretending i didnt just see him fold for 600 more or whatever).
also, i think CO is going to be put all in before you will. anyways, i'm folding, i got two rounds left in me, people are bad, i'm waiting for a better spot. |
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Re: Now were stuck with one 8 people left
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no antes, and SB could be a [censored] and call w/ random A or K. (i'm pretending i didnt just see him fold for 600 more or whatever). also, i think CO is going to be put all in before you will. anyways, i'm folding, i got two rounds left in me, people are bad, i'm waiting for a better spot. [/ QUOTE ] Turns out it was my only opportunity. How borderline is this situation to you though? I agree that I could be called with any K or A by SB, and that is on the high scale of probabilities in this situation. This is still a clear fold though? |
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