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Sticky Thread Sticky: Winners Circle

This will help me keep up with the topic in IRC. Just post: Name: Tournament played (buy-in, type of game, rebuy, etc) Winnings: How much...

Started by Corey, 12-07-2004 11:32 AM
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03-19-2016 11:49 AM

Sticky Thread Sticky: Tournament Poker FAQ (Please Read BEFORE Posting)

Welcome to the Tournament Poker FAQ. Contents: 1. Welcome to the Tournament Poker forum! 2. Where can I learn how to use the forum features,...

Started by Pascal, 08-27-2012 01:46 PM
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08-27-2012 01:46 PM

Sticky Thread Sticky: MTT & SnG Tactics Digest

Welcome to the MTT & SnG Tactics Digest. Here you can find essential articles for MTTs and Sit and Gos written by our members! MTT Articles: ...

Started by Pascal, 08-25-2012 12:53 PM
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08-25-2012 12:53 PM

Late in SnG 3 Handed

I'm really unsure of this one. I think I was okay with calling the initial all in by the short stack, but I think I should have folded after the over...

Started by Kosh, 01-13-2009 12:52 PM
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01-14-2009 07:23 PM

TT flops an overpair ($27)

I know the preflop limp is debatable, but it's usually my preferred course of action from EP (for the record, I don't hate raising either and mix it...

Started by taipan168, 01-14-2009 05:38 AM
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01-14-2009 02:43 PM

Short-handed Limping in Turbos vs Regular Sngos

In both turbos and regular 2.00+0.25 sngos, I notice that way too many people limp early on at a full or near full table. Almost all of these limps...

Started by rudefella, 01-14-2009 09:15 AM
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01-14-2009 10:17 AM

Stars $3.40. Do I push the second hand?

These are consecutive hands. Should the shove in the first hand change my action in the second hand? The table wasn't particularly loose or tight. ...

Started by Rage2100, 01-13-2009 02:36 PM
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01-14-2009 05:46 AM

AK turns TPTK after opp minbet flop ($27)

No reads but MP3 appears to be a donk. What's your turn move? How is the turn lead? PokerStars No-Limit Hold'em, $25+$2 Tournament, 10/20 Blinds...

Started by taipan168, 01-14-2009 04:58 AM
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01-14-2009 05:10 AM

Full Tilt Double Duece

Just qualified for the double duece tommorw on full tilt. 10K runners, $22 buy in. My first ever MTT tournement... just wondering what to...

Started by 3betsLighter, 01-10-2009 04:01 PM
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01-13-2009 07:20 PM

$25 Online MTT

Full Tilt No-Limit Hold'em Tournament, 30/60 Blinds (9 handed) - Full-Tilt Converter Tool from FlopTurnRiver.com BB (t4123) UTG (t2650) UTG+1...

Started by Freeroller, 01-12-2009 01:03 PM
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01-13-2009 10:44 AM

$6.50, short wAQo and UTG minraise

Had a couple of tables down to HU so had no early reads on villain. What's your default play vs a minraise? PokerStars No-Limit Hold'em,...

Started by gingerwizard, 01-11-2009 05:54 PM
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01-13-2009 06:33 AM

All-in preflop stats

I'm looking at my stats over 66,000 hands and seeing how various hands are doing AI preflop with a caller. (I can't figure out how to filter in...

Started by baudib, 01-13-2009 02:54 AM
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01-13-2009 05:39 AM

tourny review please (good pushes, missed spots?)

well i was pretty card dead but managed to have an ok finish, though i think i played bad heads up, and made some iffy pushes while missing some...

Started by fulksy, 01-11-2009 03:16 PM
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01-12-2009 08:13 PM

Shove?

No special reads on opp PokerStars No-Limit Hold'em, $3.00+$0.40 Tournament, 100/200 Blinds (5 handed) - Poker-Stars Converter Tool from...

Started by Danh Bai, 01-12-2009 09:06 AM
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01-12-2009 07:35 PM

Flipside: shoving puts them on tilt

I had shoved or called all-ins 6 of the previous 8 hands (had legitimate rush and ended up tripling up, worst of the 6 was A8o). Villain here...

Started by baudib, 01-09-2009 07:45 PM
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01-12-2009 04:07 PM

Need advice on calling range?!?

Hey everyone, This will be my first post here and I hope to get some good info on the following. First let me introduce myself: I'm 23 years...

Started by SeaKeR, 12-29-2008 10:47 AM
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01-12-2009 03:29 PM

AQ makes a full house on the turn ($27)

Opp's stats were 22/14/0.8, no player notes. What's the best way to extract value with this hand? Call and hope that he bets again or raise to try to...

Started by taipan168, 01-12-2009 05:29 AM
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01-12-2009 02:31 PM

Live Play, KQs shortstacked

$50+15, $25 bounty also. Blinds at 100/200, only maybe one or two orbits into the tournament. (Hated the structure, but wanted to play...

Started by nUFamn, 01-12-2009 11:01 AM
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01-12-2009 01:34 PM

Limping SB wCrap=bad

Had a great example of why limping SB with ATC can be a bad idea this morning. Anyone half good in hero's position will not felt his TPNK, when SB...

Started by gingerwizard, 01-11-2009 08:20 AM
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01-12-2009 04:34 AM

Opinions please JJ pre flop call

Opinions to this AI call. Would you have made the call? And yes or no, why? Villans session stats for this game are: vp$ip 5.41% pfr 5.41% ...

Started by lake, 01-11-2009 02:46 PM
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01-12-2009 04:27 AM

Live Play - UTG and low stack on the bubble: All-in or not?

Tournament: 35$ buy-in, 48 entrants (top 6 paid) Situation: I was doing fairly well when a super agressive (unknown) women joined my table (just...

Started by JohnMastah, 01-11-2009 08:04 PM
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01-12-2009 04:08 AM

I don't believe him but I folded anyway

Another marginal situation against a bigger stack... I finished ITM in this tournament despite playing some of the worst poker ever seen. Just...

Started by baudib, 12-30-2008 08:15 AM
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01-11-2009 08:58 PM

Tough spot on FT bubble 10k gtd.

11/203 players left. CO is a really loose player. We've been on the same table for most of the tournament, and he hit cards on people over and over...

Started by dev, 01-10-2009 06:09 PM
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01-11-2009 03:09 PM

Big slick missed, looking at an all in from short stack.

PokerStars No-Limit Hold'em, $1.00+$0.20 Tournament, 50/100 Blinds (8 handed) - Poker-Stars Converter Tool from FlopTurnRiver.com Hero (UTG)...

Started by trilerian, 01-09-2009 03:10 PM
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01-11-2009 04:59 AM

Insta call

9th hand of the tourney no real reads, for what it's worth villian is 36/0. Is anyone folding here? Sorry if this is a no brainer, but I am a bit of...

Started by chrisav74, 01-08-2009 05:13 AM
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01-10-2009 09:24 PM

Am I getting odds here... [humor]

This was in a $2 180 SnG... I checked the lobby to see if I clicked freeroll by mistake. PokerStars No-Limit Hold'em, $2.00+$0.20 Tournament,...

Started by angrystoc, 01-10-2009 05:35 PM
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01-10-2009 05:35 PM

44 UTG Awkward Stack

Sorry if this is a stupid question, but baby pairs UTG with an awkward stack mystify me. What would be the best way to play this? 60/120 Blinds 15...

Started by chincheck, 01-10-2009 02:39 PM
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01-10-2009 05:22 PM

QQ Early Donkament

About the 6th hand of the tourney, no big reads on the villain. Do I push? PokerStars No-Limit Hold'em, 15/30 Blinds (9 handed) Button (t1799)...

Started by chincheck, 01-09-2009 01:48 PM
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01-10-2009 04:52 PM

JJ in SB

Villain is playing 27/16 over 88 hands and has so far played fairly straight forward. My image is fairly T.Agg I have been pretty card dead for a...

Started by chrisav74, 01-08-2009 07:25 AM
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01-10-2009 04:49 PM

tourn tickets for sale

I have two tourn tickets for 11 dollar buy in for sale if any one is interested please pm me i don't play two many tourns. Thanks Don

Started by bigstock2001, 01-10-2009 03:30 PM
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01-10-2009 03:30 PM

AQo in the BB facing a MP raiser after early limper

Blinds 120/240 antes 25. I have 10,800 in BB UTG with 31,000 chip limps (playing 42/15 on 97 hands) MP with 28,000 chips raises to 1300 (playing...

Started by rudefella, 01-08-2009 02:23 PM
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01-10-2009 12:09 PM

Keyboard Shortcuts = +EV?

Hey, I often here you guys mentioning keyboard shortcuts for pokerstars and such. I'm starting to try 12-14 tables at once, and I feel that having...

Started by Im_new, 01-06-2009 05:46 PM
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01-10-2009 10:48 AM

$6.50 KJo, limped SB hits TP

No reads as early. PokerStars No-Limit Hold'em, $6.00+$0.50 Tournament, 10/20 Blinds (9 handed) - Poker-Stars Converter Tool from...

Started by gingerwizard, 01-10-2009 08:05 AM
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01-10-2009 08:46 AM

$6.50, button raise, A9o in SB

Another range dependent one. Villain has opened his last couple of buttons when folded to, I've not played back at him, although I did shove 2...

Started by gingerwizard, 01-09-2009 04:27 PM
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01-10-2009 07:03 AM

TT in SB with a call and small stack all in

$3 Pokerstars MTT before the first break I'm in SB with TT and an M>20 3rd calls 5th with M<10 and a 5th of my stack goes all in I go all...

Started by BlackLodge, 01-10-2009 05:39 AM
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01-10-2009 05:39 AM

TT vs. shortstack shove and limp shove

I was hoping the shortie would shove as he has been doing so every other hand. I didn't expect the limper to shove...What do we put him on here, I...

Started by Danh Bai, 01-10-2009 02:09 AM
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01-10-2009 05:32 AM

Would you ever make such a call?

This is like the 10th hand of the tourney, I've only played one hand previously in which I showed down a boat. He turned over JJ. I was shocked. I...

Started by Danh Bai, 01-07-2009 07:23 AM
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01-10-2009 05:27 AM

AKo Early

8th hand in, no reads. My SPR is under 3, so I should RR or shove, right? 10/20 Blinds (9 handed) BB (t1270) UTG (t1540) UTG+1 (t1450) MP1...

Started by chincheck, 01-09-2009 02:18 PM
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01-10-2009 03:13 AM

Squeeze Play Question

I must remember that in small buy in tourneys most of the time (I'd say 90%) the players are not doing a squeeze play. They have a monster in those...

Started by checkoutftr, 01-09-2009 06:05 PM
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01-09-2009 08:33 PM

88 in MP2

I hate how I played this. I feel I should've bet the flop strong. 20/40 Blinds (7 handed) CO (t7950) Button (t2595) SB (t990) BB (t4010)...

Started by chincheck, 01-09-2009 04:24 PM
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01-09-2009 05:30 PM

OT: Great to meet a fellow FTRer in person!

Random_Hero and taipan168 at an inner city Sydney pub. Sorry that the photo isn't the best quality, the Blackberry camera has its limitations ;)

Started by taipan168, 01-08-2009 05:25 AM
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01-09-2009 02:33 PM

Playing Aces [6,50]

First hand of tournament. The gameplan was to call moderate bets on any spade river, and pretty much call any bets on any other river, reassessing...

Started by Jack Sawyer, 01-09-2009 01:03 AM
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01-09-2009 02:27 PM

M=5, late in $3 Rebuy, folded around to SB with A8o?

29 players left in rebuy (bubble was at 90 players). Blinds at 5,000 and 10,000, 500 ante. Folded around to me in the SB with A8o. I have 80,000...

Started by rudefella, 01-08-2009 01:39 PM
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01-09-2009 02:09 PM

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