Well since my last post in this thread I have spent most of the week reading and watching videos online and now understand why the other player did what he did.

My play is pretty weak, my stats are very bad and he probably assumed I would fold so a shove is a good move. I had tens and knew his range was pretty wide so a snap call was inevitable and as previously said it was just unfortunate on my part.

The good thing is I have learned from it and set myself some goals starting with finding which game format I am comfortable with and secondly trying to break even with my ROI. With a bit of luck and a lot of work and some emotional detachment I know I can achieve this.

I appreciate the advice and will try and make the next thread look like less of a rant/moan.

Just had a look on sharkscope at my profile and if that isn't the motivation I need to improve my game then I don't know what is!

How do you define a successful multi-tabler? Like, on what basis are you labeling them as successful?

if they fold 7 2p pre?

I check out their results on OPR.

Yes I'm not trying to be funny either, just looking to improve my online game. I spend a good deal of my free time playing it so why would I not want to try and be a successful player,  by that I mean I want to hit the money more often and have to deposit less not give up my day job. I don't see that as being unrealistic.

That would go some way to explaining why some of the successful multi tablers I've come up against play shove fold poker in the early stages of a tournament.

Just had a couple of successful games so am finishing the day on a high, there really is so much more to this game than meets the eye.

no offence, but i dont know what your asking here? just seems like a moan

None taken, yeah it's a bit of a moan but the two paragraphs that are proceeded by a question mark were non rhetorical questions.

Thanks Dwayne, I'm not dwelling on it and I understand that when you are just shoving preflop you are taking the element of skill out of the game and it is effectively a coinflip but I just couldn't understand the need to shove preflop when we are both pretty well stacked and in the middle of the tournament. As a small stakes player I was wondering whether this type of play happens at all stakes? Whether pokerstars has more than it's fair share of this type of player being such a large site with tournaments starting every second?

I like poker, I'm not keen on playing online and I find it difficult but am wondering whether the stakes I play at are too low to actually build a bankroll with because of the type of player it attracts.

I've been putting a lot of time into my online game lately but hands like the one that follows really get on my nerves. I'd got Burri777 pegged as a bit of a maniac so when he shoves me all in I'm pretty sure I'm ahead with pocket tens and it turns out I was.

Looking at it from one perspective it is a bad beat and I should just move on and get over it.

A different perspective though is that he shouldn't really have been playing that hand let alone shoving all in with it, at that stage in the game it was just not needed. Is it just pokerstars that these people seem to thrive?

Like I say I've been putting a lot of effort into my online game lately and seem to have a good ITM rate at single seater $7 tournaments and the players seem to be less maniac like. I guess I'm asking is what are other people playing online that is profitable?




PokerStars Hand #117608913066: Tournament #924819657, $1.36+$0.14 USD Hold'em No Limit - Level IX (200/400) - 2014/06/16 20:43:58 CUST [2014/06/16 15:43:58 ET]
Table '924819657 4' 9-max Seat #8 is the button
Seat 1: Burri777 (5590 in chips)
Seat 2: surfer_crx (4125 in chips)
Seat 3: tchelos123 (9021 in chips)
Seat 5: caziano (2785 in chips)
Seat 6: HOYER78 (5088 in chips)
Seat 7: Matej2804 (2409 in chips)
Seat 8: Viktorian79 (2884 in chips)
Burri777: posts the ante 25
surfer_crx: posts the ante 25
tchelos123: posts the ante 25
caziano: posts the ante 25
HOYER78: posts the ante 25
Matej2804: posts the ante 25
Viktorian79: posts the ante 25
Burri777: posts small blind 200
surfer_crx: posts big blind 400
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to surfer_crx [ ]
tchelos123: folds
caziano: folds
HOYER78: folds
Matej2804: folds
Viktorian79: folds
Burri777: raises 5165 to 5565 and is all-in
surfer_crx: calls 3700 and is all-in
Uncalled bet (1465) returned to Burri777
*** FLOP *** [As ]
*** TURN *** [As ] []
*** RIVER *** [As ] []
*** SHOW DOWN ***
Burri777: shows [ ] (a straight, Ace to Five)
surfer_crx: shows [ ] (a pair of Tens)
Burri777 collected 8375 from pot
surfer_crx finished the tournament in 14th place
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 8375 | Rake 0
Board [As ]
Seat 1: Burri777 (small blind) showed [ ] and won (8375) with a straight, Ace to Five
Seat 2: surfer_crx (big blind) showed [ ] and lost with a pair of Tens
Seat 3: tchelos123 folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 5: caziano folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 6: HOYER78 folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 7: Matej2804 folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 8: Viktorian79 (button) folded before Flop (didn't bet)

What time does reg open for day 1c?

Just planning my journey and don't want to miss the first hand 

I signed up to the forum a few days ago whilst trawling the net looking for some poker tournaments, seems like a good site with plenty of friendly people on it so I thought I would introduce myself in here and make the start of what I hope to be a successful diary of tournaments.

I learned to play poker about seven years ago at a friends house, his parents had gone away on holiday and he decided to host a home tournament. There were over twenty people in the house and three tables on the go and I won the first and second placed the second, with that I was hooked. Fast forwarding a few years with very little poker when a change in workplace introduced me to a crowd of people that also like poker and that's how my love of the game really started to take hold.

We had a few home games and a trip to the local casino for a £10 re-buy donkfest and it started to set in badly, I signed up to a few online poker sites and started to learn the game a bit more. I started to make vague notes on how much I was spending and how much I was winning in December last year just as I entered a local £50 double chance tournament where a final table deal saw me take second place and £1000 I was over the moon, not only had I outlasted a lot of the regulars I had chipped up to second place and managed to negotiate the best deal at the table at only £200 short of the actual second place prize.

A couple of bad tournaments followed with what was to be, and still is, a very steep learning curve. Having said that it gave me the chance to try out cash poker which I was always too nervous to sit down to and with my bankroll back up to over £1000 after a few successful weeks I decided to look for a tournament at a different card room. So my first what I would call proper tournament is on Friday, I've booked the day off work and will be taking a trip to DTD to have a go in their £250 event. I'm really looking forward to it, at the moment I'm thinking that I will be way out of my depth but the starting point has to be somewhere.

I expect I will make a few stupid mistakes, lose concentration at points where I should really be making mental notes on play and trying to not get bored and start playing on my phone. Obviously my main goal is to win but being realistic, if I am playing cards for longer than I am travelling then I will be pretty pleased with myself.

Thanks for the reply.

I assume 1 x re-entry is for day 1 only and at the original buy in cost of £250?

I've been thinking of coming to this but am unsure of a few things and would be grateful if someone could answer a couple of questions (sorry if the answers are obvious but I'm relatively new, if that can be an excuse)

Can I just turn up for registration on Friday and enter the tournament?

How does the prize structure work, I'd much rather be playing for cash rather than seats to another tournament or are the tournament seats in addition to the prize pool?