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RANKED PLAYERS AND PLAYERS WITH EXPERIENCE DEEP IN MAJOR SUNDAY TOURNEYS PLEASE HELP!!!!!!!

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  1. stallionh stallionh is offline

    Ithaca, NY
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    Jan 2nd, 2006 (1/2/2006 1:55pm)

    Please Help!!!!! I have gone deep in the 200 Buy in Sunday Tourney on stars and UB over the past 3 weeks. Finsihing 29th and 49 respectively on Stars and 13th on UB. I cannot close the deal no matter what I try to do. Whether it be a conservative or risky approach. It is so frustrating to get through such massive fields and come away with so little. I have had some good success in smaller tourneys (150 buyin weekly tourney on stars) winning it once and final tabling it several times over the past few months, however these big field events have become an OBSESSION with me. My question is what is the best strategy in getting to the final table of the big sunday events when you are under a hundred people and you have an avg stack. The blinds are so ridiculously high at this point that i truly feel it is a shootout and skill will get you only to certain spot then luck takes over.
    Any help or advice would be greatly appreciated

    Stallionh
  2. Cortz Cortz is offline

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    Jan 2nd, 2006 (1/2/2006 2:02pm) in reply to stallionh

    i saw u play yesterday, good to see a fellow staten islander doing well. It just seemed as if you got blinded away near the end. I'm not a top player or anything but like a little more aggression later on might serve better. I always see you doing well in the tourneys during the week though as you said like the 150 for example.
  3. Adam Adam is offline Emperor

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    Jan 2nd, 2006 (1/2/2006 2:29pm) in reply to stallionh

    I think you're a real good player, from what I've seen, and I would be very surprised if this was anything more than just a little bit of bad luck preventing you from hitting the final tables when you have gone deep in the last 3 weeks. There seem to be several schools of thought on how to play between when you're ITM and when you're at the final table. Obviously there's a huge difference between stars, where 378 people cash, and UB, where 90 people cash (this week). I haven't seen you play these past couple weeks, but my feeling about playing deep in the Stars tourney is that you have to be willing to gamble even when you have a pretty big stack. There's just so much value on being the one guy that has 30-40x the big blind when more than half the people have less than 10x the big blind and are trying to eek up the ladder for an extra few hundred bucks here and there. I have only played this tourney one time, so I'm really just speaking from my observations, but it seems to me that if you're willing to gamble when you have 15-20x the big blind, rather than waiting till you're real low as most do, you really give yourself a shot to get the kind of chips that can protect you from getting crippled/busted just before the final table. I'm not sure if you've been doing this or not, but if you are, I'd guess that many times you will miss the final table but other times you will get there with a healthy stack and be able to get the big money.

    As for UB, I've been to the final table of their 200s a couple times, and both times I got there by more or less playing very tight in the final few tables. Since there is a much shorter time there between getting in the money and making the final table, you don't see much of a tight period other than just before the final table. If 90 cash, I'd say between it being down to 90 and being down to about 15 or so, play is super loose, so I've always felt that with their generally comfortable blind structure, as long as you're not desperately short (Harrington's red zone or what have you), you can really wait people out. Then you just have to have a couple key hands win and you're there. I find UB to be the easiest site to get to the FT after getting ITM for this reason, although I also like Pokerroom in the same way.

    I don't know if any of this helps, but either way, you're doing well to be going so deep, so stay confident in your game and you'll get the big cash.
     
  4. ira3801 ira3801 is offline

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    Jan 2nd, 2006 (1/2/2006 5:26pm) in reply to stallionh

    hey stallion-keep on truckin...great job...i was in a similar situation..i was getting in the money,in the big tourneys...3 months ago came in 20th in 750k tourney..i knew i could play,but always seemed getting knocked out by bigger stacks..experiment with different tactics as you go deeper,tweak your style...i did that and won my biggest one last week..dont be afraid to lose..
     
  5. stallionh stallionh is offline

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    Jan 3rd, 2006 (1/3/2006 4:25pm) in reply to stallionh

    GUYS,

    Thank you so much for your feedback. Adam , your comments make a great deal of senses to me. Thank you for taking the time to get into detail. I certainly appreciate it. Hopefully I will get there soon. Ira, thanks also for your comments, nice to see someone who was in my position and brought it home soon after. Great Job and congrats.

    Thanks again your comments helped

    Stallionh
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