Young gun - You will know me as Matt Bates from skypoker...am also a relative newbie to blonde.   

I agree with not shoving as against their calling ranges you aren't going to be in a great spot and you have enough to go through the blinds to get into a better spot. I would rather go through the blinds and then shove into an unopened pot from late position with any 2 or given there are no antes wait for a decent hand until you get to say 10bb. Given what you say about the table multi calling although I don't love saying it I might even fold pre. If you had a couple more bb say 18-20 then a 2 or 2.5x raise depending on what you have been doing as standard would be the best option. Going to a flop say 4 way out of position with A10 suited isn't going to be great which is why I am thinking fold. 

Matt

Just thought I would jump on board with the Tikay should play the main event bandwagon!

I would happily go for 1%. I understand your role is important hosting myself and the other skypoker players but I am sure that on the day you play day 1 someone else (say Ryan) could step up to do it or other players could say each take one player to help out.

Come on Tikay...give the people what they want!

Matt

well played George, you were on my table with about a hundred to go as I was trying (unsuccessfully) to nurse my short stack. Great work.

Thanks for all the advice guys, I played the WSOP warm up day1b. After a very nervy start I got up to a decent stack of 100k but then busted with a couple of levels to go. Was a good and very useful pre vegas experience.

Matt

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Thanks a lot for all of the advice, is really appreciated. Quite a few people have said about the DTD WSOP warm up and I am going to make every effort to go there. I have heard many good things about DTD and am looking to playing there so if I cant make the warm up weekend I will head down there another weekend. I am also planning on playing a few other live tournaments over the coming months which will probably be the sky poker tour at Blackpool and a few games at Luton as it not too far from me. The number of games and buy ins will probably depend on how SCOOP goes for me though.

Based on your comments, a couple of deepstack tournaments seems better value than the WSOP event (Yes Tikay it is the 3k starting stack) especially as I prefer tournaments with deeper stacks so I think I will go for that.

I heard Marc was going and I have followed some of his play, Tikay - he seems nearly as aggressive as you on the tables!

Tikay - Yeah I did see Tommy had won a package on the Skypoker forum, seems like we have a good bunch going over there.  Interesting who gets the last couple of packages.

Matt

Hi all,

This is my first post on the forum and I just want a bit of advice. I have managed to get one of the skypoker WSOP main event packages. I have played profitably on pokerstars for the last few years but have little live experience.  I am going to play a few live tournaments between now and then but in Vegas do you think I am better to play to play the $1k event (WSOP event no. 59) before the main event or say some deepstacks at the venetian?

Thanks

Matt