Tournament Poker

ANy opinions? Prtty typical of my SnG play, I make it ITM often but dont win much. Hello gt281h80, You requested a transcript of Tournament...

You know how sometimes you run up against aces with your kings and poeple say it just one of those things. How about when you have aces raise preflop...

I signed up for a No Limit's Hold em Tournament that is raising money for charity. It was a $200 buy in. I have no idea how much chips that gets...

Party Poker No-Limit Hold'em Tourney, Big Blind is t50 (7 handed) MP2 (t1915) CO (t780) Button (t840) SB (t1105) BB (t535) UTG (t1880) Idiot...

I usually play NL ring games and do pretty well. I almost always walk away with much more than I put in. Lately, i have been trying to develop a good...

I almost did the other day, I was in 51st in an MTT with 53 left, top 52 pay out. I only had 3BB left but I had the button. I got pocket aces and...

I had a bad week so i decided to use poker to relax. But yeah put in 55 dollars played 5 sit and goes got the following places 4th, 4th, 4th, 4th,...

ugh.. this sucks.. SNG lesson #1 - don't risk your whole stack on a bluff against a bigger stack on the bubble... :( PokerStars No-Limit...

Ok so i'm ITM in an MTT and i have about 10X BB. I need to double up as the average stack is nearly 4 times mine, I got pocket Q's was it right to...

Well I've already played in about 6 freerolls, all of them with 6000 entrants. In all of them ive place 1000 or less, my best finish was 57, but ive...

Hand Number: 132,211,110 Table Number: 1,432,464 Event Name: No Limit Holdem (#1047788)MNHF Event Started: Saturday October 23rd 10:45:12 PM CDT...

I was in an MTT last night and was not getting the run of the cards at all. Somehow I was still in it after an hour, managing to turn 300 chips into...

... or any other fish-heavy online casino... I was playing a $20 SnG today, and noticed the following: I was in the last 3 players, with a...

I don't know if any of you guys do this, but there's an organization called amateurpokerleague that puts up daily freerolls all over the country. You...

there's 3 players left in a 18 man tourney (live home game). im on the button w/ about 400 chips, small blind is chip leader with about 500 chips,...

Well i'm posting this to potentially help other people who seemed to have a cronic problem of going out ITM, but not getting the good money. I...

*********** # 79 ************** PokerStars Game #790821681: Tournament #3112679, Hold'em No Limit - Level IX (300/600) - 2004/10/22 - 14:17:04 (ET)...

First hand of an MTT, you are on the button and someone goes all-in immediately in early position. It is a regular low buyin game with lots of fish....

Alright, I admit it: I've been playing in the Amateur Poker League games here in the Dallas area lately. For those who aren't familiar, APL...

One of the hands I played in a tournament last night, and one I was confident of winning - especially after the turn. Did I play it right? Too...

I don't know if I should have, but the math says it was probably an ok idea. PokerStars Game #790073959: Tournament #3109207, Hold'em No Limit...

OK, here it is: I'm looking at KK preflop, so I raise, with one caller. FLOP: A K Q of diamonds I'm more worried about a flush than I am...

i'm just curious how everyone likes to play their SnGs. for me, i play very very tight. i fold everything except for top tier hands. and even...

PartyPoker had a $5000 freeroll for new players. i just signed up there a couple days earlier so i was eligible. well i can't say i liked the...

Ok, 3 hands I would like you guys to critique. First off, the format was like 70 people, start with 500 chips, blinds start at 10/20 and go up every...

Well I dont know if its actually a strategy but a thought on all in with lower cards in a bind. This is what was said. The last home game I...

here's my SnG hole cards i got the entire game, i still squeezed a 2nd, but man oh man what horrible cards.

after some disheartening ring game results in the past couple of days, i was re-energized by my good performance in the last FTR League tournament,...

I've been able to fairly consistantly (i'd say a good 60% of the time i'm ITM now). Most of the tournements I play end up with a field of close to or...

I decided to not post this in soupie's because this is my own experience and my own expression of strategy that I just felt like deserved its own...

Do any of you big MTT players ever play in the Limit Tournaments? If so, how do you fair? I played in one and finished 8th out of like 160, but...

Flopped four of a kind within the first few hands of a tournament. On the flop I went up against a sizeable bluff (500, blinds were either 10/20 or...

I hate posting bad beat stories, but c'mon - someone tell me how....truly how...do you get past the "monkey poker" period in a tournament?? This was...

Empire Poker is having a $50,000 Guaranteed MTT in about 4 1/2 hours and as of now it only has 95 people registered. It's a $100+10 tuourney and I...

I was very impressed with level of play in the gauntlet, today. I did not see anything but play that will lead to long term success. I have 3...