2 nights ago i played in a multi...599 players, playing my usual game, didn't get unlucky, only once got lucky...after 4 hours 15 minutes, it was down to the 7 of us...i was in 4th place with 84,000 chips...then holy cheesecake palomino! for the first time ever, my computer got disconnected...i thought it was UB's fault, so sat there like an idiot waiting for it to come back up....didn't think of rebooting, since i'd never had this experience( plus was concerned that somehow i'd get kicked out and not be able to get back in) ...FINALLY it occurred to me, duh, and i rebooted the whole thing
...blinds were 4000/8000 when it went down, when i came back, i'd been blinded out and there were 3 left at the table....i came in 6th. YOW! Glad to get 6th though, nice ROI there.
Statistics: Posted by WildBillHickok — Wed Apr 27, 2005 11:58 am
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He goes on to state 3 reasons to be all-in preflop.
1. It will sometimes be the best hand unimproved.
2. Most of the time when it wins, it is with one pair - a tricky hand to play in NL.
3. A large percentage of the time that AK wins a showdown will be when it catches an Ace or King on 4th or 5th street. If you aren't all-in you often aren't there to catch it.
He does go on to point out it is a lot better to be the bettor when you go all-in and not the caller.
I'm not good enough to argue with Sklansy - I think I'll start to use TK's strategy.
Statistics: Posted by Sunbob — Wed Apr 27, 2005 12:49 am
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Note: I don't know what stakes tourneys you are playing. For $5+1 or freerolls, I can see this all-in play working. But anything higher than that, I can't see too many calls by 33 or any ace. Even the $20+2 & $30+3 at Party have mostly reasonable players after the first 100 knuckleheads are gone (not necessarily "good" but by reasonable I mean they'll foolishly call a reraise with AQ but not A3) .
Statistics: Posted by Zarathustra — Mon Apr 25, 2005 12:15 pm
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MVP - Nothing I post is ever set in stone. If you have a manic raising every hand acting behind you you have to give him rope to hang himself. If yuo have a tight table and the blind are meaningless you have to slow down but not so slow that you let 4 or 5 players see the flop. If you do your asking to lose alot of chips.
Aisthesis - That was 90% of the 40% when I did get called. However your right that figure is to high and I didn't have enough data and really I still don't.
At this time I have gone all in pre flop with AA and have not lost a showdown. I only have 9 hands that I have done this with since I started pushing AA.
KK however is another story. I have had KK 12 times and it has been cracked 3 time times. edit note -I miss typed 9 times in the original post
Once by AA the rest of the time by Ax. This weekend the play was so fishy that people were calling all in's with any A.
AK I only pushed it 3 times and I am 2 for 3. The lose was to pocket 6's.
So what is that 24 times I have pushed won 20. So at this time it is 80% win rate.
I will start keeping exact records. such as position, called not called, what others had, when lose ect....
I have not noticed a big change as far as ITM finishes. But I have noticed an improvement in my stack size as the Trn enters the later stages.
SNG's have gotten so tight I am not sure this is going to work for them. I'll give more thoughts on SNG's later.
Semperfi - It's going to take a little longer to answer you so I will have to get back to you later. Hope your tearing up the tables in Vegas.
Statistics: Posted by TexasKowboy — Mon Apr 25, 2005 8:04 am
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I had the three hands a total of 4 times. I doubled up twice and had no callers the other 2. At the 10/20 level I moved in with KK and had 33 call for a double up. At 100/200 I pushed with AK on the button with $3300 and had AQ call me and I hit a K on the flop. With AA I only took the blinds, but with AK another time there were 4 limpers at the 75/150 level and they all folded, so it was a decent pot.
I like this play and will continue to use it. Thanks Kowboy.
Erik
PS- I finished 52d out of 422 and it paid 50
Statistics: Posted by Erik67 — Sat Apr 23, 2005 3:55 pm
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Statistics: Posted by MVPSPORTS — Fri Apr 22, 2005 1:26 pm
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Maybe if we can get an early big chip pile, THEN we go back into our usual style, course I know you've already figured that, just thinking out loud here.
Usually one doesn't win much w/ AA anyway, might as well go all in...often somebody thinks you have JJ or 1010 and will call you w/ AQ, AK, QQ, JJ, 1010, then we'll usually be doubled...
I'd like to know how Dan Harrington thinks on this...he's made that final table in the big one often lately, getting thru all the huge number of minefields.
So i've gone back mostly to my bread and butter, the SNG's...every now and then playing a MTT and ring games.
Statistics: Posted by WildBillHickok — Fri Apr 22, 2005 10:13 am
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