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Old 11-02-2005, 03:10 PM
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Default Play a rebuy MTT with me(first post)long

My first post, have been lurking for a few months. Generally a STT player and lurker, so a lot of my problems may be from playing primarily in STGs and not much experience in MTT. I played in a few but not many and have not played in a rebuy before. My main problem were with accumulating chips during the first rounds of a tourney as proper STG strategy advocates being tight early rounds and stealing blinds late. I will post a series of crucial hands, my action, any reads, and my thought process; these are the hands I am uncertain of. There were other hands where I used position to pick up some chips by stealing blinds, raising several limpers, or calling with position and betting a flop if I hit or checked to. I was never able to double through or pick up large amounts of chips. I think I would have been ok if the blinds didnt increase so rapidly and that I wasnt used to rebuy structures.

Tourney structure. Trump Casino Indiana 100$ buy in(T400) 40$ add on(another T400), unlimited rebuys for first hour(anytime you fall under T400) with a 60$ add on at the end. Blinds double every 20 minutes. 100 players

1.)First hand, no reads. Blinds 5/10. UTG + 1 raises to 75, folded to me in SB with A [img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img]10 [img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img](T795). I fold BB fold. I didn’t wanted to put in 10% of my stack with A10o out of position with no reads.
2.)Third round. Hero is button A [img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img]Q [img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img]. (T950) Blinds 20/40. MP1 Calls MP3 Calls Cutoff calls, all 3 of these players are loose passive and bad. All have limped several times and folded to reraises. They still attempt to limp.
I raise to T250 to pick up pot now. Wrong move, amount? Should I limp here and try to build a big pot or push?
Only SB calls(T540 after call) pot 660. SB is loose preflop, but could laydown after flop. Has rebought twice already. Flop 10 3 2 rainbow. SB checks I push. He calls. Has A10, I don’t suckout. Down to T160, I rebuy for another 400. T460
3.) 2 hands later. Blinds 30/60. 4 limpers to me in CO +1, A [img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img]K [img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img]. I push. I wanted to give the impression that I was on tilt and was pushing because the buy-in was about 10 minutes away. Everyone folds
4.)Same round Blinds 30/60. About 50 players left. Last hand before break and blind increase. I have JJ in BB. 3 Limpers to me I push. Same as before I was looking for a call to double up even if I had to race because I could always do a double rebuy for 80$ then an add on in a couple of hands. Everyone folds.
5.)After Add on I have around T1600. New person moved to my table directly next to me with about T3500. Person next to him has around T5000(very loose early, pushes his chip lead and from what I seem plays a good big stack). Both blinds to my left are huge chip leaders at the table at this point.
6.)Blinds 100-200. Folded to UTG + 2 T1200. UTG + 2 is a good player, who plays has been playing tight due to rebuying early twice off of bad beats. So far every time he shown a hand it has been the best, but has been getting unlucky. He definitely aware that he needs to make a move and double up or pick up some chips. He has pushed a few times around the last couple of orbits as have I. I believe he knows the importance of Harrington’s first in vig and the need to pick up chips. Folded to me in MP with 9 [img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img]9 [img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img]. I fold, folded around. I believe this hand was critical to my tourney and would have raced against two overs, correct? Since he was so tight early I didn’t want to call with 99 and the possibility of an overpair, plus I have T1600 and am not in desperate shape. I could find spots later to push. I think his range was not large enough hands here to include many Ax, Kx type of hands. I thought about it for a while and folded. I think doubling up here could have given me a legitimate shot at building some chips. Folding just keeps me in survival mode. Is 99 here a must call against a tight player. IMO 99 wouldent be a huge favorite against many of the hands he’d play here in his range.
7.)200-400 blinds Hero T1200. Folded to me in SB 7 [img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img]3 [img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img]. Loose chipleader in BB. T6000. I folded. He laughs and shows Q2 [img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img]. I asked him what he was showing me that he would have folded if I pushed, he said no I would have called. I think he was saying that so I give him walks from now on, but he was pretty loose so may have called. In a STT I would have pushed. Is this an obvious push with any two situation. I didnt because, my hand was so bad, BB was loose and had me covered by alot.
8.) Next hand folded to me on the button I have 5 [img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img]5 [img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img]. I push, T1200. Loose SB calls with 66 and I don’t improve. He gone.

Flame away. I am trying to determine correct MTT strategy for a rebuy tourney with rapidly increasing blinds, but I included hand examples as questions. The two hands I think were critical to this tourney and misplayed werehand 2 AQ and hand 6 99. Please feel free to flame any particular hand or in general my strategy in the early rounds.
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