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 Originally Posted by CoxhEd
when I get a good hand, nothing on the flops it seems like.
from the way you described it, it seems as if you are playing the cards and not the player?
i pretty much multi and grind 1 tables all the time. below are my tatics and findings....maybe it'll help you find a leak in your game.
1. i only play on stars....so i wouldn't know about party. but i heard party has crapshoot SnG structure...and with all the fish there, it'll probably turn out to be a sushi fest more than a poker game. maybe try out stars or UB for a bit?
2. generally, i sit tight for the first few hands unless i'm dealt an absolute monster. on these 1 tables, it is extremely important to know your players like the back of your hand. all this information will be used later to your advantage. i watch how they bet, what they do when they're drawing, who's too loose, who's too tight, who's weak, who's strong, who's an ace whore, who's a straight whore, who's a calling station, etc etc. the point here is to isolate the bad players and punish them for their mistakes.
3. mid tourney i'll begin to losen up and play according to my stack and the players around me. i use all the information above to exploit weak players. the absolute key here is no fear. if you sense weakness, bet like you have the flop and expolit that weakness. if you sense somebody trying to "exploit" you, trap them real good and scare the crap out of them. i have found that developing a certain table image helps tremendously.
4. depending on how i feel, i sometimes protray a weak/tight image in the beginning, then change gears to tight/aggressive. this tends to work well because you scare the players quite nicely. (they were so sure of themselves of your betting tendencies.....and then all of a sudden, you stole 5 of their blinds in a row) other times, i like the image of a maniac/tilt machine. basically, raise with "crap" (but it should have some potential....don't raise w/ 2 cards that can't even make a straight i.e. Q2...put at least some effort  ) and show them that you just stole with crap. this will usually tilt them into calling any bets you make. it also shows that you will raise with any two cards (of course this is not true....its just misdirection) and "could" potentially hit any flop thus giving you lots of room for exploiting people. also, i've found that when you DON'T showdown the cards that you WOULD HAVE won (lets say you had ace high flush on the river, you bet, he thinks for a long time, and folds), and then say something like "thank god you folded...lol", you will tilt them REALLY bad and they will most definately call any bets you make next time.
5. to be perfectly honest, i build 40-60% of my stack during this time by exploitation. by the time you get to the bubble, you should be sitting at around 4k (on stars) and roughly 1st or 2nd in chips. i generally try not to just double up once or twice to get my stack. a general saying that i go by is, "earn easy money fast, lose easy money fast." now this is not true for everybody, but i've found that i do much better accumulating rather than getting the chips in chunks. all i'm trying to say, is i'm rarely trigger happy near the beginning of the tournament. i find that when i'm pulling the trigger alot, i get sucked out and kicked out sooner or later (hence the saying "lose easy money fast"). this doesn't mean to never pull the trigger.....it just means to wait until you have good reads on your players before you begin. don't just pull the trigger based on cards alone. pull it based on cards AND players.
6. late tourney is another ball game. i guess i'll start with the bubble. when it gets down to the bubble, if i'm short stacking - i play with no fear. the only raise that big stacks will respect is AI. find your spot, pull the trigger, and pray. i don't really have any good tatics for short stacks on the bubble, maybe somebody else can elaborate on this one. big stack play is pretty simple. the key here is find the players who are weak, and exploit them. this is not always the extremely short stacked players. actually, i tend to stay away from short stack players who want to play russian roulette. find those mid stacks or even big stacks sometimes who are waiting for the $700 chips guy to go out and lean on them. never tone down your aggression. keep leaning on the weak until they crumble.
7. itm. yay! but don't celebrate too soon. 3rd sucks, your goal is 1st. there are lots of different senarios for this point of the tourney, but i'll go over some common ones. big stack, big stack, short stack - hopefully you are a big stack here.......be very careful trying to steal from the short stack. usually, they are so happy that they didn't bubble out that they will pretty much be like a 3yr old on crack. monster stack, short stack, short stack - if your monster stack, do same as above (be careful on your steals...). if you're a short stack, try to avoid stealing from the monster stack. push on the other short stack and induce bluffs out of the monster stack (by playing weak when you're in a pot w/ him).
8. the key is always know your players. go with your reads. find weak players and punish them. keep the aggression up and it will pay off in the long run.
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