Anybody got any strategy pointers for these tournaments?
Appreciate its very stake dependant.
A question:
Say its ante of 500, (4500 in pot). What would be a standard open here? Tried most things between 500-pot with little success.
Assume its fine to limp every other hand we dont open with? Shocked at some players folding for 5 into a 5k pot. Surely players these days can't be that stupid?
Make it up as you go along. It really depends on the table. The rules can change too, the stars one is different to the WSOP one.
You get some really weird things happening , if someone raises to 1000 in the 4500 pot, and you reraise to 2000, it can get folds that make no sense if the original raiser thought about it. Some tables are very limpy, others aren't. I guess nobody offers training. Post flop is fairly standard though you obviosuly need to think about ranges more.
The limp every pot thing falls over if you are bad at folding post or the fella on your left raises every pot.
Limp reraises happen way more often than in normal hold em strategies, and seem effective.
I have played barely any, but won one on stars and have a 100% cash record in the WSOP version. I expect people who can think about the concepts must have a much bigger edge than in normal nl tournaments where even the fish get most of the theory.
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