Online Poker Forum - Please suggest future Challenge ideas

Philbird1 · Posted: Thu Aug 20, 2009 6:51 pm Post subject:

Get a pro to spot you a buck! Or get some heavy duty AP for knocking out a pro.
Even MORE points if you can get them to enable their chat feature. AP points for even getting at a table with one.

Aelfinn · Posted: Thu Aug 20, 2009 9:17 pm Post subject:

I would love to see some 6 max cash game challenges. Most every challenge has the stipulation of the hand having 6 or more players dealt in. At a 6 max table there are a lot hands that don't have the necessary 6 players dealt in thus making it very difficult to complete the challenges. At the very least you could change these to require at least 3 or maybe 4 players dealt into the hand.

awj94122 · High Card Joined: 22 Apr 2007 Posts: 5

I noticed most of the challenges are based on NL holdem. While it is one of my favorite games, I am also a limit player. Perhaps we could see some similar challenges in limit holdem, such as preflop strategy, or play on various streets.

Thanks

awj

ruip · High Card Joined: 10 May 2009 Posts: 16

Fixed limit Hold'em FullRing challenge suggestion:
-CAP Preflop with QQ+, AK from any position (3x)
-Steal the blinds with an open raise from CO, BTN or SB (4x)
-Steal the pot with a cbet on the flop with no pair against 1 or 2 opponents (4x)
-Raise against a cbet with a Flush Draw or/and a OESD, with no pair (1x)
-Check-raise on the turn or river when completing a flush/straight against the aggressor on the flop/turn (1x)

Pro Play:
-Play a 200 hands session and leave with a profit of at least 6BB

Lorduss · High Card Joined: 01 Sep 2009 Posts: 1

Hello,
I would love to see a challenge relating towards Turbo single table SnG
maby with some focus on handling the bubble when so much gamble is involved.

Suriving a tight table with blinds have made the avg player have 3-4 BB or even less and there is still 7-8 players on board etc
the finer details of winning these tables

iorourke3 · High Card Joined: 01 Sep 2009 Posts: 1

I agree

NoTilt · Royal Flush Joined: 16 Apr 2009 Posts: 830

Aaron Bartley's SnG By the Numbers and Lederer's...uh....SnG challenge that I can't remember do a pretty good job at handling bubble decisions, as I recall. They're designed for both regular and turbo, and in normal cases they work pretty well in my opinion.

For those rare cases where you get 7 or 8 people with 6-7 BB in a turbo, it really turns into a superturbo. Basically, it's all-in or fold. You just have to figure out what hand range works best from each seat. Despite being in the BB the next hand, you have to be ULTRA tight UTG, because there are 6 or 7 more people who can bust you. Conversely, if it's folded to you in the SB, you can probably raise well over 50% of your hands. You've got hand equity for the normal premiums that you may be lucky enough to get, fold equity because BB's not gonna call you with crap, and suckout equity because even if the BB calls with AJ, your Q9 can still win a good part of the time.

Superturbos are very mathy - if you don't have a good feel for the ranges, you're kind of sunk. No bluffing, and no depending on players' past tendencies...it's 99.9% a "level 1" game where you ask "Do I think I have a good hand?". It's not a level 2 game where you ask "Does he think he has a good hand", and it's certainly not level 3, where it's "Does he think I think I have a good hand".

mary kelly · Two Pair Joined: 14 Apr 2008 Posts: 71

Paul Wasicka addresses the short buy-in strategy and impact on game strategy and results

SHORT BUY IN PLAY RING GAMES:

1: Fold xx, yy, zz, etc. from the BB k times when your stack is 10x +2 players

2: Fold xx, yy, zz, etc. from the SB k times when your stack is 10x +2 players

3: Raise 5x the BB x times in late position with xx, yy, zz, etc when a short buy-in calls from early position

4: Reraise on late position with xx, yy, zz, etc. when a short buy=in calls all=in

5: Eliminate x times the short buy-ins entire stack

Diametrix · High Card Joined: 06 Sep 2009 Posts: 2

Philbird1 · Posted: Sat Sep 19, 2009 8:22 am Post subject:

I suggest for BM two things.
1. For the first three tasks, everyone not need to fold to you preflop.
2. Not have to repeat the pro play 5 times!

RealityVanished · High Card Joined: 24 Sep 2009 Posts: 20

I'd love to see a few extra MTT achievements:

Aggressive bubble play:

Bet x% of your total stack while in the bubble

Knock outs:

Knock out more than _ players in a single MTT

Call an all-in preflop against an opponent's pocket aces and win

Bad Bluff:

Call an opponent who has gone with nothing and win with a pair or better.

JamesDaBear · Full House Joined: 28 Feb 2009 Posts: 190

These are obviously biased suggestions, as they should be.

1) Satellites - playing different kinds including rebuys, sngs... yes they do FTOPS challenges, but there are Sats running on FT 24/7/365 whether there's an FTOPS going on or not.

2) HU- SNGs. I could see also making HU cash games part of a challenge, but I don't think many beginners would want to play those.

3) Matrix - this was a fabulous idea from earlier that I would second.

4) Rebuy tournaments - Michael Gracz has a great lesson on this I would like to see moved into a challenge.

5) Mixed games - yes, they could only do it in Tournaments for now... but that's fine for me. I enjoy the sessions on the different games FTP offers... but I want Lessons and Challenges, especially now that FTP has a 7-game mix.

6) Blind play - I think everyone could benefit from more instruction on that.

7) Limit Hold-em - If you can't do any games other than hold'em, at least give us a limit hold'em lesson and challenge... or even a mixed hold'em lesson/session/challenge.

FTPAcademy · Moderator Joined: 09 Mar 2009 Posts: 76

Thanks for your suggestions everyone! JamesDaBear, we do have a Limit Lesson in the works. How does everyone like the most recent challenges?

dis ID taken · High Card Joined: 07 Aug 2009 Posts: 9

I have tried many times to get the game selection challenge to accept. But everytime I accept it, I get the Ferguson pre-flop challenge in my challenges.

Any more SnG challenges in the works?

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