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bozobobo
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Joined: 26 Aug 2005
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Location: lowell ma
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 Posted: Fri Aug 26, 2005 9:07 am Post subject: sng vs tournament play |
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hello everyone, just joined the site yesterday and have found it to be an excellent site so far. i am presently palying on three other sites, pp, ps, and ub, have been playing on those sites for about a year now. i average approxiamatly 4500 hands on each site each month. i play alot of single sng and multi table sng and tournaments. i have been very sucessfull in my sng play, usually average in the money about 75% of the time. however, my tournament play has not been so good. i usually make it to the top 20% but very rarely make it to the money part. my stratagy for tournament play is the same as i use on my sng play. i have bought several books and read and re-read them all. i just can't seem to make it to the money on tournaments. Has anyone got any suggestions on what i can read to help my play. i saw something about a dvd from one of the pro's but i dont know where to order it.
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GripHoldOn
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Joined: 24 Jun 2005
Posts: 2098
Location: Boston, MA
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| Posted: Fri Aug 26, 2005 11:34 am Post subject: Re: sng vs tournament play |
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hello everyone, just joined the site yesterday and have found it to be an excellent site so far. i am presently palying on three other sites, pp, ps, and ub, have been playing on those sites for about a year now. i average approxiamatly 4500 hands on each site each month. i play alot of single sng and multi table sng and tournaments. i have been very sucessfull in my sng play, usually average in the money about 75% of the time. however, my tournament play has not been so good. i usually make it to the top 20% but very rarely make it to the money part. my stratagy for tournament play is the same as i use on my sng play. i have bought several books and read and re-read them all. i just can't seem to make it to the money on tournaments. Has anyone got any suggestions on what i can read to help my play. i saw something about a dvd from one of the pro's but i dont know where to order it.
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Getting to the top 20% is useless in MTT play. Since usually only the top 10% makes any money, finishing in the top 1/5th is like finishing last. You should play a little bit more aggressive early on. Yes, you'll finish in the bottom 20% more often, but you will have more chips when you DO make it to the top 20%. Usually, you're playing tight, doubling up here or there, but you're shortstacked when it gets close to the money. You're better off with a big stack near the money, even if it means going out near the bottom of the pack often. |
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gigadebt
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Joined: 12 Aug 2005
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| im gonna go out on a limb here and say that theres no way you make it in itm 75% of the time or youve played a very very small amount of sng's |
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UrbanMeyer1
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Joined: 25 Jun 2005
Posts: 720
Location: Gainesville, FL (The Swamp)
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| 75% ITM @ STTs? Over how many? |
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Jaconda78
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| seems like you had a very small sample size, right? |
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bozobobo
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Joined: 26 Aug 2005
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Location: lowell ma
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thanks griphold on. you are right i do play very conservative in the begining of my sng and mtsng and tourneys. i have only been keeping track since the first of this month. i have palyed in 12 single table sng usually at the 5 and 10 level and have placed in the money 9 times. as far as mutl table sng, i have played in 6 two table and placed in the money 4 times and have played 5 three table sng and placed in the money 3 times. Most of the tourneys i enter usually have anywere from
800-2000 entries. the best i have done so far this month was in the tourney with 2000 entries i finished in at 201
does anybody know the dvd i am asking about, i saw it mentioned in one of the posts i read the other day and now i can't find it. it was done by one of the pro's at this site. i would like to get it if anyone can tell me who it was by and where i can order it.
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bozobobo 8) |
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Jaconda78
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| I'm gonna beat Urban to the punch here, and say that 12 sng's are a sample that is so small as to be useless for statistics. Something closer to 500 is teh start of a good sample size. |
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UrbanMeyer1
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Location: Gainesville, FL (The Swamp)
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| I'm gonna beat Urban to the punch here, and say that 12 sng's are a sample that is so small as to be useless for statistics. Something closer to 500 is teh start of a good sample size. |
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