how should i prepare for the WSOP? (help the cash game donks)

[IvanXDurham]

"That's what I said I, I cut myself on the fence"

As far as your opinion on small samples not reflecting HOH's techniques, you are "correeeect sir, yes".

[gaurangp]

sell your seat and go on vacation, unless you are gonna really improve and work insanely hard

[KRANTZ]

thanks for the advice guys, will take all of it into consideration

[bigt439]

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Krantz,
I'm just going to list a bunch of random things that come to my head.

1. (Antes + SB + BB)/1.5=effective BB If you have less than 10 you should either shove or fold pf(you can get tricky with big pairs to maximize value).
2. With a short stack you need to tighten up considerably a lot of hands just can't be played profitably.
3. With 15-20bbs 3bet shove against loose openers with a widish range.
4. Remember most of the events are full ring so you need to play nittier than you normally would especially as the blinds get bigger.
5. A lot of your decisions will be very dependent on your table. Some tables will be so nitty you can virtually open any 2 in any position profitably. Others you will need to pick your spots more carefully.
5. This will be difficult because you play cash but Shania is virtually irrelevant in MTTS. Stuff like balancing your range is not something you should worry about. You won't play most of your opponents often enough for it to matter and as stacks get shorter it doesn't matter.
6. And I think this one is most important while reading and getting some advice will help you need to try and play some MTTs one sunday play a bunch of the big ones and see how you do and ask good tournament players for advice on hands. Luckychewy switched over and he had some very big leaks when he first started and is now a very solid MTT player. (One big leak I see with a lot of cash players who move to MTTS is their pushing ranges/3betting ranges are waaaaaaaay too wide.) Against good players (or bad players who make the right play for the wrong reason) pushing too wide is very exploitable.
9. I'll end with my 3 things I think you need to do to win MTTS.
1. Make big folds in spots where you need to do. I hate to sound like Phil Hellmuth but if you avoid going broke in hands your supposed to it can save you.
2. Pick up a ton of money with showdown. You don't want to showdown in MTTs because it means you can go broke so you need to try and pick up a lot of chips without showing down.
3.Win Races. There's a fuckton of variance in MTTS and in order to make a lot of money in them you need to run well. Win a few races don't get any sick coolers etc. It seems obvious but its really important.
10. Just because list of 10 are better than lists of 9.

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krantz, this is all very good advice.

i would suggest stopping by the stt forum / picking up sngpt to start fiddling around with pushing ranges. you WILL be surprised with what is +ev and what's not. i guarantee it.

also, it's good that you have this attitude about tournaments. many people, think haha, tournaments are easy, and they definitely are, but you have to make a TON of adjustments. getting ready for the wsop will not be easy... if you haven't really played or studied tournaments you have a LOT to learn. but you can do it, and it sounds like you want to. good luck.

[CincyLady]

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+ try to hook up with an experienced live MTT coach

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I've got a question myself on this part. Just how do you find an experienced Live MTT Coach? I mean it's not like they are in the Yellow pages, and even if they were, how could one trust that they were for real, and knew what they were talking about?

I currently live in Denver, and hope to play in the WSOP this year, but I have a problem in knowing how to play deep stack poker with long rising of blinds in Tourneys.

I've been trying to play at the Gilpin in Blackhawk, as they have lots of deep stack poker events, but I find myself getting sucked in by the fact I have more chips to start with than I'm used to, and making donkey moves because of it.

Where could someone like me, find someone in the Denver area to instruct me? Where is a good place to look?

Also, is there a quick and easy way to figure the Odd's part of the equation (IE: When for example, as they say, that you are priced into calling someone who's gone all in, even if you have really bad cards)? I always seem to get stuck in that area, as Math has never been my strongest point.