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BrotherMunsen
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12-28-2004, 07:29 AM
Post subject: 1st Tourny Question
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Join Date: Dec 2004
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Howdy. I just discovered this site and it is great. Anyways my group of friends have decided to have a hold'em tourney and I am greatly looking forward to it but I have a question. When we get togeather to play poker it usually includes different games and when a hand of hold'em comes up everyone always stays in to see the flop. I definately see believe that this is going to happen during the tourney in the early rounds since it is ingraned into everyones psyche.
How should I take advantage of everyone staying for the flop for the first few hands?
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Brodie
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Join Date: Nov 2004
Posts: 95
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I think the best advice would be to not see the flop without a premium hand. Peer pressure might make that tough, though.
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Brodie
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TLR
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Join Date: Aug 2004
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If you know most of the people will pay the blinds at least to see the flop I would do the following:
Raise the max with top pairs (KK,AA)
Depending on the amount of people in your table I would proabably see the flop with any pair, if you have 8-9 people in your table, and they all will see the flop, I assume they will also call with top pair almost any kicker or even middle pair, you get great implied odds on a pair
Play suited connectors, again, with a field that large you get good implied odds
Do not raise too much with hands like AK, AQ, JJ, QQ - you will not narrow down the field by that in your case
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a500lbgorilla
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JESUS TAKE THE KEYBOARD
Join Date: Sep 2004
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Raise it high with premium hands. Limp with drawing hands like Axs, suited connectors and low pairs. Undervalue top pair top kicker and two pair post flop.
-'rilla
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Smithers, use the amnesia ray.
You mean the revolver, sir?
Precisely.
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allLiving
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Full House
Join Date: Apr 2004
Location: Los Angeles
Posts: 799
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Play group 1/2 hands specifically, and possibly 3 if you think you can play with a read-based decision going into the turn/river.
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Push fantabulous hands (AA/KK/QQ?)
Limp borderline hands (AXs, suited connectors etc), only play if you hit the flop big.
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TLR
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Join Date: Aug 2004
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I think that the recommendations of most people (myself in a previous post included) refer to the stage of the tournament when there are 7+ people. Once you get down to 3-4 people you will need to change your strategy a bit.
Suited connectors are less valueble at this stage because the implied odds are usually not good.
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