Blonde tournament staking required!!

[Colchester Kev]

 

[amcgrath1uk]

lovely

Just played the 5k that started at 22:15

Last 16, comfortable.. only had premium hands go to showdown and played pretty tight yet aggressive

At 500/1k, raised to 4k with  , sb tanks and shoves.. I call.. he obv has shoved with 33

A x x x 3

sighhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

losing these vital flips is doing my head in!

Going to update fully on Friday when I'm off work.

[Rookie (Rodney)]

Please, why 4k???

[amcgrath1uk]

Please, why 4k???

errr good question.. seemed a good idea at the time.. what would you have done? Always good getting advice..

[TheChipPrince]

Please, why 4k???

errr good question.. seemed a good idea at the time.. what would you have done? Always good getting advice..

Your leaving yourself far less room to manouvere post-flop, as you probably will have far less effective stack sizes.  Plus with a 4xBB raise your rarely going to see action or a re-pop from hands your beating such as AJ-A8/9, KQ, QJs, J10s etc etc.  If you get raised it'll nearly always be a pair or AK...

You make the opponents decision a lot easier, if the BB is sitting there with a marginal type hand facing a 2.5x raise your putting him to decsions, making him think. With a 4x raise he'll chuck all those hands with out question, ok you may pick up the blinds a touch more, but you'll rarely win a bigger pot unless it all goes in pre-flop and you win a flip.

Plus, on the rare occasions you raise 4x, someone re-pops/moves-in behind, then someone else gets involved and you have to fold your wasting nearly twice as many chips as you should be...

[Longy]

Please, why 4k???

errr good question.. seemed a good idea at the time.. what would you have done? Always good getting advice..

Your leaving yourself far less room to manouvere post-flop, as you probably will have far less effective stack sizes.  Plus with a 4xBB raise your rarely going to see action or a re-pop from hands your beating such as AJ-A8/9, KQ, QJs, J10s etc etc.  If you get raised it'll nearly always be a pair or AK...

You make the opponents decision a lot easier, if the BB is sitting there with a marginal type hand facing a 2.5x raise your putting him to decsions, making him think. With a 4x raise he'll chuck all those hands with out question, ok you may pick up the blinds a touch more, but you'll rarely win a bigger pot unless it all goes in pre-flop and you win a flip.

Plus, on the rare occasions you raise 4x, someone re-pops/moves-in behind, then someone else gets involved and you have to fold your wasting nearly twice as many chips as you should be...

This is really solid advice, 2.5x ftw or if you are shorter than 12bbs just open shove.

[amcgrath1uk]

Thanks guys.

Just a question..

 At 500/1k I'm happy with the raise to 2.5k. What would u do with 500/1k/100, effectively with 2.3k in the pot already?

[Rookie (Rodney)]

Thanks guys.

Just a question..

 At 500/1k I'm happy with the raise to 2.5k. What would u do with 500/1k/100, effectively with 2.3k in the pot already?

Just the same.

I generally make it 2.76x the bb when raising.

[amcgrath1uk]

Thanks guys.

Just a question..

 At 500/1k I'm happy with the raise to 2.5k. What would u do with 500/1k/100, effectively with 2.3k in the pot already?

Just the same.

I generally make it 2.76x the bb when raising.

Ty. Will give it a go on Friday. Full schedule as I'm off work.

[Graham C]

I generally make it 2.76x the bb when raising.

lol, for easy calculation?

[Rookie (Rodney)]

I generally make it 2.76x the bb when raising.

lol, for easy calculation?

[amcgrath1uk]

I generally make it 2.76x the bb when raising.

lol, for easy calculation?

next time I'm at 500/1k, I'll be raising 2.76xbb

[Graham C]

lol that's the only time

[amcgrath1uk]

lol that's the only time

I can cope at 1k/2k as well

[amcgrath1uk]

1st FT

5/10 on the 6k $30

ONE TIME!!