Two Plus Two Newer Archives  

Go Back   Two Plus Two Newer Archives > Tournament Poker > MTT Community

Reply
 
Thread Tools Display Modes
  #1  
Old 11-21-2007, 01:19 PM
kickflip252 kickflip252 is offline
Member
 
Join Date: Oct 2005
Posts: 38
Default Looking to step up my game and play in some \"bigger\" Live MTT\'s

I am a winning player that so far has been playing small online stakes.
The last Live MTT I played in (other than bar games here in atlanta)was about 2 years ago. It was in A.C. at house of blues casino. $50 buy in. 48 people. took 9th. (paid 5). It was my first major live tourney and I feel I did well, even though I risked chips at the wrong time by pushing with pk 10's and getting called by AQ suited short stack. ... but I digresss

Now I'm not living in NYC anymore so quick trips to Atlantic City are not possible.

For Christmas, some friends of mine are going to give me an X-mas present of a bank roll somewhere in the $300-500 range. What I'd like to do is take that money and take a shot at an MTT ... either one good tourney for the whole roll or like 3-5 partial buy ins (which I think is the smarter move in case I run bad or bump into better / more experienced players)

The problem and what I really need advice on is WHERE TO PLAY now that I live in Atlanta, GA. I'd like to stay somewhere in the area (6-9 hour drive at most). I've looked into Tunica a little bit, but I know Florida has some places as well as other places in Mississippi. I'll def do some more research, but do any of you play in this area much? Which are the juiciest games with the most fish? Although I've got a pretty good game, I don't want to be jumping into a shark tank. I also don't want to play in any rebuy tourney's right now... they tend to favor the players with more cash on hand, so I want a freeze out to limit my exposure. Again, I'd love to go somewhere for about a week and play in 3-5 games and really put some time in. Then if/when I cash out I can play some cash games as well in the off hours.

If anyone has any advice or info, I'd love to hear it.

thanks
Reply With Quote
  #2  
Old 11-21-2007, 01:27 PM
Boise123 Boise123 is offline
Senior Member
 
Join Date: Apr 2007
Posts: 382
Default Re: Looking to step up my game and play in some \"bigger\" Live MTT\'s

The WSOP and WPT will both be in Tunica in January. I would take my shot at some satellites.
Reply With Quote
  #3  
Old 11-21-2007, 02:10 PM
kickflip252 kickflip252 is offline
Member
 
Join Date: Oct 2005
Posts: 38
Default Re: Looking to step up my game and play in some \"bigger\" Live MTT\'s

what are the buy ins for the satellites do you think?

I'd love to play like a $50-100 mtt or sitngo, then parley it to a satellite entry... i'd rather not play a game with only one payout, unless there are mtt sats that earn more than one payout
Reply With Quote
  #4  
Old 11-21-2007, 02:20 PM
LuckyLloyd LuckyLloyd is offline
Senior Member
 
Join Date: Dec 2006
Location: Dublin
Posts: 799
Default Re: Looking to step up my game and play in some \"bigger\" Live MTT\'s

Best advice is put the $500 online - prolly best left on stars. And play the $55 50k guaranteed freezout tournament 9 times. $500 will not get you a good, well structured live game in the US I'm afraid. And it isn't actually enough for a decent sat I would have thought.

Sorry if this dashes your hopes btw.
Reply With Quote
  #5  
Old 11-21-2007, 02:32 PM
Dawg24 Dawg24 is offline
Senior Member
 
Join Date: Feb 2007
Posts: 157
Default Re: Looking to step up my game and play in some \"bigger\" Live MTT\'s

I am also in ATL and agree with LuckyLloyd...

Online is still your best bet...traveling with a $500 bankroll your expenses will be at least half of that...Play online or local games...local games especially that small of stakes will always be filled with fish..sharks are not wasting there time playing in a 20 person $100 tourney...

Good luck to ya...but the best advice as far as I can see is get on line and build a roll...or take a "shot" at 2 sunday millions...$215 each...
Reply With Quote
  #6  
Old 11-21-2007, 02:51 PM
kickflip252 kickflip252 is offline
Member
 
Join Date: Oct 2005
Posts: 38
Default Re: Looking to step up my game and play in some \"bigger\" Live MTT\'s

Thanks for the advice, I appreciate it. I don't mind the travel expense though, fyi. The problem I have with the big online games is I play mostly on full tilt and I think I'm not loving their blind structures, level times, and starting chip stacks. Also, I'm on a mac, so I don't think i can play at stars or party. been playing ftp so long I havent looked.

Do you know any decent freezeout home tourney's in ATL, dawg? I'd love to get in on one of those regardless of whether or not I travel.
Reply With Quote
  #7  
Old 11-21-2007, 03:23 PM
THAY3R THAY3R is offline
Senior Member
 
Join Date: Jun 2004
Location: The Great White Hope
Posts: 9,755
Default Re: Looking to step up my game and play in some \"bigger\" Live MTT\'s

No offense but you sound like you're bad.

Read TOP and like HOH and play micros/small stakes online. If you become successful at that you will be +EV in pretty much any live tourney.
Reply With Quote
  #8  
Old 11-21-2007, 04:40 PM
mappedout mappedout is offline
Senior Member
 
Join Date: Jul 2007
Posts: 188
Default Re: Looking to step up my game and play in some \"bigger\" Live MTT\'s

[ QUOTE ]
No offense but you sound like you're bad.

Read TOP and like HOH and play micros/small stakes online. If you become successful at that you will be +EV in pretty much any live tourney.

[/ QUOTE ]
^^This is always good advice for someone relatively new.

First of all get a Windows XP emulator for your mac, then you can launch XP inside of your MAC OS X and use any windows app u like.

Second play a few of the Deep Stack tournies on Poker Stars, they have 5000 chips to start, 30min blinds, and a good structure (muuuuuch slower than the normal 15min/3000chip/guaranteed tournies).

However having said that the normal structure for guranteed tournies on stars / double stack tournies on ftp are really pretty good IMO, however you wont be rolled properly to get going in any of these except maybe the $11@6p on PS...

As far as live tournies, all the local casinos are prolly not gonna have structures that are even close to online. For instance we have a local tourney at harrahs (kc) that is a $40 buyin with a cap of 40 ppl blinds 15min and 6 places paid and the worst part... 1500chips starting at 25/50... unless you goto some WSOP-C/WPT/big series you're not gonna find anything decent.
Reply With Quote
  #9  
Old 11-21-2007, 06:48 PM
patstap patstap is offline
Junior Member
 
Join Date: May 2003
Posts: 26
Default Re: Looking to step up my game and play in some \"bigger\" Live MTT\'s

[ QUOTE ]
[ QUOTE ]
As far as live tournies, all the local casinos are prolly not gonna have structures that are even close to online. For instance we have a local tourney at harrahs (kc) that is a $40 buyin with a cap of 40 ppl blinds 15min and 6 places paid and the worst part... 1500chips starting at 25/50... unless you goto some WSOP-C/WPT/big series you're not gonna find anything decent.

[/ QUOTE ]

This is so true. Live MTT's with <$100 will have an ultra-turbo feel. Quickly turns into a card catching contest if you don't double/triple up early.

Clearly within the realm of possibility to play five $100 tournies and get less than 5 hours of total play.

So if you are hoping to play 8-10 hours of tournament poker each day, like you could in a deep stack format, you're probably under funded for low buy-in tournies.

If you want to play in a couple of $40-$70 tournies each day, take a shot, but be prepared to take in a show or kill some time with other activities.

If you want to take one shot, play a $500 mega-satellite to a WSOP-Circuit or WPT tourney. Say there are 250 entrants and it awards 25 seats. You don't have to win, as 1st pays the same as 25th.

Usually a little better structure in these.

Ask around and be sure you'll be able to sell the seat easily if you don't plan on playing in the Main Event, tho.

When evaluating the blind structure, keep in mind the amount of hands seen in a live tournament will be quite a bit less than on-line. With 15-minute blinds, they'll be escalating every other orbit or so (sometimes every orbit).
Reply With Quote
  #10  
Old 11-21-2007, 07:42 PM
tedtodd tedtodd is offline
Senior Member
 
Join Date: Dec 2003
Location: lurking in the german forums
Posts: 2,387
Default Re: Looking to step up my game and play in some \"bigger\" Live MTT\'s

[ QUOTE ]
No offense but you sound like you're bad.

Read TOP and like HOH and play micros/small stakes online. If you become successful at that you will be +EV in pretty much any live tourney.

[/ QUOTE ]

Yeah....your plan sounds terrible. Learn some BR mgmt, then put the money online and prove that you're a winning player before trying larger live tourneys.

Obv $500 is a big deal to you....it's ridiculously dumb to attempt to play a satellite into a bigger tourney. You're dead money- they'll eat you alive.

And....if $500 is a big deal- why not play <$20 buyin tourneys online. I've cashed for over $5k from a single $20 tourney. If $500 is big to you, then $5k will be huge to you.
Reply With Quote
Reply

Thread Tools
Display Modes

Posting Rules
You may not post new threads
You may not post replies
You may not post attachments
You may not edit your posts

BB code is On
Smilies are On
[IMG] code is On
HTML code is Off

Forum Jump


All times are GMT -4. The time now is 07:12 AM.


Powered by vBulletin® Version 3.8.11
Copyright ©2000 - 2024, vBulletin Solutions Inc.