going to 40000dollar freeroll need help!

[south chicago]

goin to a 40000dollar freeroll in indiana next week, 1000 in chips, blinds start 25 50. blinds double every 15 min, what is the best way to go about this stratgicly? seems like its gonna go quickly. imput needed!

[twonine29]

run goot!

[Pokerfarian]

Learn some pushbot charts//make sure you can pushbot decently. And yeah run good.

[Tackleberry]

First of all - be prepared for a format that depends mostly on luck! Serious - you already begin kind of shortstacked (20 BB - according to Harrington you start in the yellow zone) and even if you double up early the next blind level will make you shortstacked again. The fact that everyone else is shortstacked as well doesn´t make your situation much better. So you will permanently be on the hunt for situations which can double you up. You can not afford to be overly tight at the beginning. Already in the second level your M drops into the orange zone.

So you have to look for the weak ones. Who limps much and folds to a raise? Attack them.

Who raises light - but is postflop weak? Call them and attack them postflop - with nearly any two.

If you have a real good hand (like JJ-AA) immediately push. Don´t get fancy - you´ll probably be called at least once anyway.

If you somehow manage to get a real big stack (like >30-40 BB) - remember that you still have just 15 mins before your M drops down to the half again. So stay aggressive.

But overall - these tournaments are mainly dominated by luck, not by poker experience or even reasonable play. Don´t be disappointed if you get your chips in with AK and are called with some incredible crap (like J2o) and he busts you. Nobody can afford to wait for good cards here.

I wish you good luck! [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

[south chicago]

i guess im not so excited about taking the 3 hour drive to ceasers indiana. i had really hoped id be able to play my game. thanks!

[Willd]

Pretty good advice except for this:

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Who raises light - but is postflop weak? Call them and attack them postflop - with nearly any two.


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Calling raises really wide with 20bbs is awful, however tight/loose bad/good the raiser. Otoh restealing preflop against loose raisers with a wide range is very good, provided his calling range isn't also very loose.

The most important thing you can do in these crapshoots is know how to pushbot effectively. After the first level or 2 virtually noone will even be deep enough for resteals to work well, except against people who are far too tight calling a shove (far more common live than online). Look out for the people who call 3-bets too tight and people who just call shoves too tight from the blinds and pick on them with very wide ranges.

Most of all run good [img]/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img]

[jtomon]

Avoid the spelling bee on the way to the tournament.

[ssnyc]

don't shy from flips...you're all short all the time and you will need to pick spots to build your stack...DO NOT LIMP fold...play only hands you want to play hard and live with the consequences...

[Jon_AK]

that must be a typo? has to be 10,000 starting chips...