Tournament Poker

Here is an interesting situation I ran into yesterday. Begs the question: How do you know whether you should be stealing blinds or holding tight....

Is my bet sizing ok here? Obv we want to give the incorrect to opps on drawy hands and entice them to call or go over the top. Should my bet size be...

Alright, again with this tourney, the end result was fantastic, but I know at the point where I hold 1/2 the chips at the table I may not have been...

Have I have got myself into trouble here by not potting/pushing the turn? Part of the issue is I have no idea what the villain is calling the flop...

Alright, so the end result of the tourney is great, but am I playing too tight? Basically the feel I got from these guys was that they were calling...

I have just got hold of a copy of Hold 'em Manager. Is it possible to see tourney wins/positions and total tourney profit? I'm a bit clueless when I...

All day long I see this image of the sky for several players. Does anyone know why it is used by literally hundreds of players? And yes this does...

Just moved to new table so i thought about folding this to UTG raiser... The shortstack had just doubled up by pushing T8o from CO and beating AJ....

this is the situation, you are going into the final table with just under 17% of the chips in play, you are top 3 in chips and can easily take top 6...

What would you do? PokerStars No-Limit Hold'em, $5.00+$0.40 Tournament, 10/20 Blinds (9 handed) - Poker-Stars Converter Tool from...

So the guy in the Small Blind pushed everytime to steal from me. I finally had enough and did this: What would you have done? PokerStars...

Villain is a complete maniac, playing any 2 suited cards, defending far too often, sometimes pushing in on bottom pair against continuation bets. I...

this belongs in "live," but i felt it would get more play here... i play in the dumbest structure ever known to mankind once a month. start...

PokerStars No-Limit Hold'em, $33+$3 Tournament, 3000/6000 Blinds 600 Ante (3 handed) - Poker-Stars Converter Tool from FlopTurnRiver.com saw flow...

I know there are people who don't play AQ and are very successful...I think I am on the verge of joining the ranks. I just can't quite get there...

Do we 2nd barrel here or are we done with the hand? No reads on opp yet Full Tilt No-Limit Hold'em, 6+0.50 Tournament, 20/40 Blinds (8 handed) -...

No reads. I have to lay it down right? I can't though :? FTR Hand History Converter Output (intended for copying and pasting into poker forums!):...

-----Hand 20----- Heros M = 15.94 Full Tilt Poker Game #8930029153: $3 + $0.30 Knockout (68216118), Table 45 - 60/120 - No Limit Holdem - 1:44:39...

Good play or bad here? MP1 is pretty average, not horrible, but not necessarily great, either. PokerStars No-Limit Hold'em, $4.00+$0.40...

now i usually play cash games but do dable in mtt's. i heard or read that there is a general strategy that if there is enough in the pot that you can...

Villain is 30/6 over 40 hands or so, haven't caught him playing much postflop. This is the nightly $11 5k just after the 1st break (3k starting...

My instincts tell me it's probably a "meh" situation - call or fold is probably about equal - but I dunno. 700 person MTT (the 12500 guarantee on...

Hi, I have been away for a while and am a bit rusty! What should my thinking be here? BB has only been at the table one orbit but appears to be...

Hand 1: Fire again or check? Full Tilt No-Limit Hold'em, 10+1 Tournament, 25/50 Blinds (8 handed) - Full-Tilt Converter Tool from...

Full Tilt Poker Game #9117178882: $6 + $0.50 Sit & Go (Turbo) (69748223), Table 2 - 400/800 - No Limit Hold'em - 21:32:46 ET - 2008/11/22 Seat 1:...

Y'all MTT regs probably know this. But I was considering why, once you're getting 2 to 1 odds and/or nearly half your stack's in the middle, it's...

Relevant info: BTN,SB,BB are all fairly tight, villain (SB) is the loosest of the group, running 20/6 over 3-4 orbits. I doubled up 15-20 hands ago...

Opp's stats were 27/5/4.6 at this point. Ship it? PokerStars No-Limit Hold'em, $25+$2 Tournament, 25/50 Blinds (9 handed) - Poker-Stars Converter...

Button's stats were 24/7/6.0 and MP2's were 23/14/2.3. What is your line here? It is clearly shove or give up on the turn. Are they slowplaying or...

This is not a bad beat post. I want your opinion on what I could've done better here. This table was extremely loose aggressive. I had accumulated a...

SxyRose is a terribad player who I've witnessed go AI with A3s, but I don't know what the other FIVE fish are going to do... If one goes AI with Kx...

Ugh. Full Tilt No-Limit Hold'em, 10+1 Tournament, 80/160 Blinds (6 handed) - Full-Tilt Converter Tool from FlopTurnRiver.com Button (t1395)...

PokerStars No-Limit Hold'em, $5.00+$0.50 Tournament, 100/200 Blinds (3 handed) - Poker-Stars Converter Tool from FlopTurnRiver.com Button...

No reads on BB PokerStars No-Limit Hold'em, $3.00+$0.40 Tournament, 25/50 Blinds (8 handed) - Poker-Stars Converter Tool from FlopTurnRiver.com ...

PokerStars No-Limit Hold'em, $5.00+$0.50 Tournament, 100/200 Blinds (5 handed) - Poker-Stars Converter Tool from FlopTurnRiver.com Button...

It's a common enough adage that you gotta be aggressive. If you're gonna raise, raise enough to push your opponent out if that's your intent, or to...

This is ALWAYS a monster isn't it? Thus, given his shortstack, probably a fold preflop? Villain had donked most of his chips off and limped a lot...

The pre-flop call is probably a little loose here. After the flop I figure opp who puts in 375 has at least TP and the implied odds are sufficient to...

No reads at this stage. I know I should probably have bet the flop a little harder with four opps in the hand. What's your river move? I don't think...

what do you do here in these hands? PokerStars Game #22240404609: Tournament #122015678, $5.00+$0.20 Hold'em No Limit - Level IX (200/400) -...