I Beat the Rock Garden- Thanks

Rocks, weak-tight nits, whatever they were, I beat a number of them in a winner-take-all 10 man tournament. To be fair, they weren't ALL rocks but most were and the recommended LAG approach as suggested by this board was key.

I played reasonably tight preflop, coming in with your usual big paint, pairs, decent ace, and med-high connectors. I played positionally aware, but since one raised preflop without a monster (or maybe AQ+, also rare) position was a question of limp or raise.

The flop. This game was *suprisingly* NOT no-foldem holdem, and so only 2-3 players were seeing flops. This made c-betting very profitable. Essentially I stabbed all night, and usually won. In position heads up I probably bet 100% of the time against most players (the rocks). Any resistance, and I (corrrectly) folded. The game wasn't too hard to begin with.

As I got shorthanded I thought my edge increased, since few players understood that one has to loosen up; and those that did, did not loosen up nearly enough. Also, the blinds started getting big and I was the only one stealing them. Average stack would be ~15 big blinds and my allins would get startled reactions. lol...?

I ran into trouble when it got 4-handed and my image went down the shitter. I knew I was in trouble when a seemingly tight player raised my cbet on a flop with absolute trash and showed. So I planned on making a terribly transparent stab with a monster. A few hands later I got lucky and my wish came true; I stacked him with a stab-raise-felt exchange.

Three-handed I kept up constant aggression (still selective though, I was folding), and the players were just handing me their blinds. I won a race, and headsup against a nit was a joke. It went bet-fold, bet-fold, bet-fold and my enormous chip lead v. the nit got bigger. Finally he pushed with the worst hand and game over.

Thanks to FTR for the advice. Online microstakes are as loose as they get (and that's my usual game), so this home game was a challenge. Yup play the opposite of the table for sure. Playing loose v. a tight table means few big pots but at least you get to play a lot of pots, which is less boring. How to beat it? Stab, stab, stab. Remember position, it's easier to cbet when it gets checked across.

Oh yeah, and don't get stacked.

congratulations buddy. I too have learned much from the folks here @ ftr. It's been my homepage for nearly 2 years.

Every Tuesday night I play in a $10 40-50 man sattelite at the local bar. The way it works is this: top 5 recieve chips for the seasonal finale. 5000 for first, 2500 for 2nd and so on... The past two Tuesdays I have scored in the top 5. Wish me luck tonight.

btw, shat are the specs on your tournament? buy in, chip structure, blind increases etc.

$5 dollar buy, blinds increase haphazardly, according to # of players left / or busto. Yeah I thought the structure was pretty stupid but "house decides" is the law of the land. started with 30 blinds each. It was a long tournament though (tight table). Good luck @ the races lol.

awesome, glad you figured it out...for now.

i cant believe they didnt test your cbets sooner...donks....better news for you, though. i guess you have to keep doing it until they adjust, and if they dont, they are the dummies.

the best thing that you prolly havent figured out just yet, is...now you can play those tables online instead of leaving. keep pounding, pounding, pounding those rocks into submission.

keep it up.