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does anybody have any advice on playing a six max TV tourney 100k to start blinds 1k-2k, 2k-4k, 3k-6k 5k-10k, 7k-15 10k-20k
each level is 18 hands winner qualifies for final losers get nothing. 2 pro's 2 celebs/sportspeople + 2 qualifiers

obv brag i qualified for late night stars of poker (on Irish TV) through poker stars filming is next Friday i am soo excited
never been on TV before or played much live before truth be told. any advice appreciated i wanna try and win this!
 

keep raising limping and calling is bad

The standard will be appalling - NAP.
When it becomes a dog shoot, shove with a wider range than normal and call shoves with a tighter range than normal.
Other than that enjoy the free food and wait for the inevitable donkey to cooler/suck out on you.

be a nit in the first few levels, occasionally mention that you folded AQss to a single open and keep straight faced and then exploit your tight image later on.

yeh stacks are so shallow you cant make a mistake. so just fold stuff and try not to feel too dirty about it early and jam tons later.

Super nit early, super lag late. If unsure pass, dont start calling big %s of ur stack. If there is any kind of serious money involved, join poker x factor and watch everything by sheets and innisint. Learn shove ranges and callings ranges against the number of bb's you have. If your not that bothered, play super tight and dont be too concerned about being on tv. If at any point you have 5bbs its probably right to open shove. Good luck, and enjoy. :-)
Oh yes one more thing. Old school pros dont understand the above. Sports stars are usually bad. Celebs even worse.

thanks all, i was going to play tightish early but try and taget the celebs (they have to be awful right?) shoving light late on if i get that far i have no problem with im pretty decent at shove or fold loads of STT's played

depends on the celeb
norman pace aint that bad a players
roger de coursey can hold his own
vicky coren has an ept title

yet some of them have never played before

Don't be afraid to make some loose calls when the structure demands it at the 5k-10k level

eg KJs is good in the BTN vs CO shove

Pretty much covered apart from Congrats and good luck..............enjoy it.

Geo

If the celebs are pissy wank then give them every oppurtunity to make bad folds vs you.

Don't be the one to make the bad folds yourself.

not even thinly vieled ::)


glgl

Everyone saying play tight early is just wrong, smash out the gates, i won a heat with this exact structure just get yourself to 130-150 ASAP so you can afford to lose a showdown at 2-4/3-6

FYP

Position or OOP doesnt really matter, its not hard to get paid!

I guess it depends how passive the other players are not been told who i am up against yet but smashing it out the gate sounds good to me, its basically winner take all and i could care less about hanging around getting short stacked for the sake of TV time. take any edge i can yeah flushy?

Brag: just found out i get $500 for traveling expenses straight into my stars account(for a 90 mile drive) and a night in citywest hotel dublin. happy days

Talk me thru the fold of AQ to someone who has just open shoved 2 hands off a nano stack and you know is capable of shoving ATC  ;)

If I remember right dubai did all the playing in your heat flushy!

Ive known Paul a while and never known him to shove light with an average stack (which is what he had) obv i call the first time but generally players who shove 2 hands in a row turn over a premium the 2nd time around, i generally expect tight players to be tighter than me in these situations, as such i gave him a tighter range than i gave myself, i would fold A9/AT here so gave him AJ/AQ+ and pairs best case. Given how bad the players were on my left (had Frazer and Wheatley??) i thought best of it and keep taking down pots by opening.

Having said that to your reply to you post, i would never fold AQ to a nano stack who shoves ATC.

Wrong one Greekboy

Apologies Doctor D.

Just get Ling on to answer this question pls. kthx

couldnt agree more with the 'rule of 3' - which you describe - but it was a call

I was wondering about your thought process on that thou - and interesting to hear your thoughts - ty for taking the time on a sensible answer

I thought wheatley was super loose thou and would call light? (cant remember how many chips he had). Therefore not an ideal opponent?

meh i thinking out loud - dotn worry about responding if you cba - will have to watch again

Errm it wasn't i played every hand of the heat, you might have seen 1/7 hands on the telly, i think its close but i make the same fold if the situation came up again. Ha just read that sentence back and seems quite confrontational, only because i was quite pissed off about the fold after i found out what he had as it was him who bust me in 3rd in the Semi which we are talking about, as such i did a lot of thinking about the hand and at first thought it was a call but realised i was a results orientated fish and fold is fine.

Wheatley was yeah loose bad, thats cool though as he just peels with hands that play bad post and so has to keep giving up the pots.

Bit of a crap structure, you'd think it wouldn't be much more hassle to have a slower structure and just edit out all the boring hands.

in fairness its a TV show and they want to film 3 heats in a day, its not the world series and im not complaining as it only cost me 100 fpp! probably better for me with a quick structure anyway.

nah i think hes right. i heard they didnt edit anything either.

DUBAI>FLUSHY!!!!!

I watch a lot of these TV donk'n'go's.....RUN GOOD seems to be the only strategy I can pick up from them....

qft