Complete Hand Histories available from some recent tournaments.

[nolanfan34]

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I'm no tourney expert, but I don't think minraising with QQ is a smart idea. Someone with Ax in the blind won't move in on you preflop but will have a hard time laying it down if he hits top pair or trips up his x. It just makes your QQ harder to play postflop because it opens up villain's range quite a bit.

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You have to consider the stack sizes of the blinds though. In this case, the BB is short stacked, and certainly may push with any Ace, especially if it looks like a steal play from the button. You're not too concerned about the BB calling, then pushing on the flop, because you're going to be fairly committed to calling him anyway.

The only problem, is if the big stack in the SB flat calls and decided to see a flop. Then, your decision will be a bit more difficult.

[baronzeus]

Looking at the KQo hand here, with 6 people left to act, it seems a bit hasty. Any hand that calls is either way, way ahead, sort of ahead, or marginally ahead. What did you think your chances were of picking up the blinds with 6 people left?

[iMsoLucky0]

Good enough to push? lol.

And as for showing, that was a mistake. I show too often sometimes. I'm trying to cut back on it some.

[baronzeus]

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Good enough to push? lol.

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This is why I suck at MTTs. They're never good enough to push for me [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]

[blockafor]

In the Empire 50K, your 97 cracks some guy's kings when you flop a straight, and he gets mad and says, "i know for a fact ur not gonna make a damn penny out of this tourney". Hilarious. I really hope he looked up the results of this tourney afterwards.

I'm getting just as much entertainment from reading the chat as I am knowledge from reviewing the hands.

[DemonDeac]

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Good enough to push? lol.

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This is why I suck at MTTs. They're never good enough to push for me [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]

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ya gotta be able to push your chips in the middle even when you know you're behind but can get a fold and a pot. thats something i've learned the past couple days with my MTT success

[iMsoLucky0]

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In the Empire 50K, your 97 cracks some guy's kings when you flop a straight, and he gets mad and says, "i know for a fact ur not gonna make a damn penny out of this tourney". Hilarious. I really hope he looked up the results of this tourney afterwards.

I'm getting just as much entertainment from reading the chat as I am knowledge from reviewing the hands.

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LMAO, yeah. You should follow me around some more rebuy tourneys during the rebuy period. People get so pissed and say some of the dumbest stuff. I can aggravate them pretty well too [img]/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img]

[Roman]

Wow thanks a ton for giving these out.
My email is metalicraft@hotmail.com

[mlagoo]

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LMAO, yeah. You should follow me around some more rebuy tourneys during the rebuy period. People get so pissed and say some of the dumbest stuff. I can aggravate them pretty well too [img]/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img]

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I remember back maybe 6 months ago, when I first started playing online, playing in a rebuy MTT on Noble Poker, and a player named Phil Ivey on there (I think we can rest assured it wasnt Mr. Ivey), during the rebuy period, kept going allin and calling allin with the most absurd hands in the world.

At the time, I thought, man this guy is just the biggest fish ever. I couldn't believe it. And the table I was at was giving him so much crap, really ripping into him. But sure enough, he eventually held up a few hands in a row, and had a huge stack, and all of the sudden, he tightened up.

When I looked again at the end of the tourney he was HU with a huge chip lead. Turns out theres a method to the madness =).

IN summation, rebuy tourneys freak me out.

[iMsoLucky0]

Damnit, I didn't post these so you all could just read them and see how I play. I want more questions/critiques.