Friday Is Almost Here!!!

Well i guess this is how i feel right now with all the shit that has been around me. I am almost to the starting line and i feel very good about how day one will pan out.For the first few days i will just get a feel for the $10 sng's once again.
Then i will begin to set my sites on the Mtt arenas. As much as i hate to admit it i will proboly go with the $22-$27.50 mtt's.Atleast this way i will be able to hit maybe two of these a day. Below is a few post from Pocket Fives that i need to keep in mind when i go deep.


Re(6): 4betting all in vs. agressive 3betters in tourney late stages
by Annette_15 on 10/10/2007 21:33




Will, ur putting too much thought on this. While tourney life is very very important early in tournaments, u gotta be willing to take some chances late in order to put urself in a spot to win the tournaments. Survival is ovverrated after u get into the money and even in the middle stages of the tourney. Agaainst an unkown I'm shoving here 100% of the time... The reason for this are:

- A lot of players are using position to pick up free money with weak hands, This is a known fact, and ppl keep doing this even if they know theire opponents are aware of it. The odds of ppl picking up a good enough hand behind are very slim and many ppl are scared to reraise without a hand even if they know they're being robbed.

- If u take this to the next level, u have to put urself in the bb's position. Hes facing a raise from late position and he knows that they're both big stacks. It would be very logical that he knows that the raiser doesnt wanna risk his tourney life against another big stack so his reraising range SHOULD be very wide, and according to OP read on him, thats whats happening here.

- The 4 bet will have plenty of fold equity as the other guy will not even be getting close to 2:1 on a call.

- The bbs range here as already mentioned should be wide, and im not surprised if he will fold at least 50% of the time which means the OR will increase his stack by over 30% every time his opponent folds with no showdown! And this is huuuuge. Even if he does get called, he might be ahead oh hands like AK and AQ... maybe even 7s.

- Fold equity is key in tournament play. The sooner u realize it, the more u will win.

Annette