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  1. azholdm azholdm is offline

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    Jan 9th, 2007 (1/9/2007 3:53pm)

    I belong to some well-known poker training sites.

    While the record of the coaches is outstanding and the videos are well done, it seems that I'm often watching 2 phases of a MTT video:

    Tight early play followed by a random big-pot win.

    Loose aggressive play later in the tourney, where the table either 1) plays along with the coach folding to his raises or 2) the coach makes a read on a player, goes allin and wins.

    These wins are often suckouts -- the read was plain wrong. Sometimes forum comments are made about all these wonderful suckouts. The reply from the coach is "if I hadn't sucked out, the videos would be much shorter!"

    If the vids could teach how to suckout, fine. But, of course, they can't.

    From reading the pokerfox's articles in Poker Pro, I get a sense that he is doing deep thinking to win mtts, way beyond what these videos are explaining.

    Would pokerfox.net be a good site to try? Can anyone suggest others?

    P.S. Some sites also feature deep in the money videos which are good -- except I never get there. When I am at the ft of a 1200-player tourney, I'm sure they'll help.
  2. AggroFish AggroFish is offline

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    Jan 9th, 2007 (1/9/2007 4:00pm) in reply to azholdm

    I read a great article and I dont know if it was on here or in Bluff, but it said something to the effect that in order to win a MTT you need to win 1 all in as a 4:1 dog and 2 coinflips for all your chips.
  3. peeved peeved is offline

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    Jan 9th, 2007 (1/9/2007 4:26pm) in reply to AggroFish

    Sounds about right -- I just busted out of a 3r cause I didn't suck-out an A with my slick against chip leader's KK (I was 40th).
  4. azholdm azholdm is offline

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    Jan 9th, 2007 (1/9/2007 6:19pm) in reply to peeved

    About a year ago, I made the ft of a low-limit tourney on party. I was 9th of 2,900.

    I won an allin with a suited Jx. The other player shoved allin on the turn to get me to fold. I had chump change left, under 1,000. So I called, drawing for a flush. Instead, I got a J for a pair and won 70,000 chips.
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