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07-29-2005, 08:51 PM
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How do tourney players make up for lack of table selection?
I'm mainly a limit player that plays the occasional SNG/MTT for 'fun'. Lately I've been spending more time concentrating on table selection. I'll use GT+ and leave a table when the avg vpip gets to low, and have been finding lots of success through careful selection of my tables.
I was just thinking about STT/MTT players and realised that there is no option to leave if you happen to land at a table with good players. So what do the the STT pros do to negate this? Why would you want to go pro through a type of poker where you have one less avenue to maximize your edges? 
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#2
07-30-2005, 01:32 AM
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Re: How do tourney players make up for lack of table selection?
Somehow, poker players made it through 150 years without the aid of electronic/computer help like GT+. Surprisingly, most successful tournament players are better at game theory than the average person, and rely on skill to win. Why would they want to do this? Because they can win using their brains.
Dogmeat [img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img]
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07-30-2005, 02:23 AM
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Re: How do tourney players make up for lack of table selection?
If you play in multi table tournaments, you will at times hit some tougher tables and some softer tables, but your average table quality will stay the same over the long run. This is no different than being aware that the normal swings of the game mean that you will experience some times when you get absolutely no cards and some times when you can't stop getting good hands.
In general, you seek out tournaments with softer fields at comparable buy-ins. Softer field means you are less likely to encounter a strong table. For example, the World Series of Poker main event was by far the softest field ever for a $10,000 buy-in tournament and every pro with any self-respect who could scrape up a non-bankroll threatening dollar amount or who could get a backing agreement probably tried to get into that tournament.
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#4
07-30-2005, 09:37 PM
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Re: How do tourney players make up for lack of table selection?
[ QUOTE ]
Somehow, poker players made it through 150 years without the aid of electronic/computer help like GT+. Surprisingly, most successful tournament players are better at game theory than the average person, and rely on skill to win. Why would they want to do this? Because they can win using their brains. Dogmeat [img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img] [/ QUOTE ] Game selection has always been an important poker skill. Its just much easier to jump around tables now that we have the internet and GT+.
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07-31-2005, 05:09 AM
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Re: How do tourney players make up for lack of table selection?
[ QUOTE ]
Somehow, poker players made it through 150 years without the aid of electronic/computer help like GT+. Surprisingly, most successful tournament players are better at game theory than the average person, and rely on skill to win. Why would they want to do this? Because they can win using their brains. Dogmeat [img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img] [/ QUOTE ] Thanks dogmeat, you hit it. Sometimes, at B&Ms- you can't even select the LIMIT RING GAME you play on!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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