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how do you win live donkafests?
at my local casino i play a £10 rebuy now and again, it normally gets around 60 runners, and out of them id say only about 15 of them are good poker players
the starting chip stack it 2000 and blinds are 100/100 to start moving on to 100/200 200/400 etc so very shallow structure with not much room for serious play
what gets me angry is that everytime i get knocked out its always by bad play and the villain getting lucky, il use tonights exit hand as an example
my stack was around 9000 with blinds at 600/1200 and i was on the big blind with a 10, the guy utg (who i know is a major calling station and loves to play pots with mediocre hands) limps into the pot and it comes round to another major donk who also calls and its folded round to my blind
now i know my a10 is ahead of both players because both these guys raise when they have premium hands and i didnt wanna play a pot out of position and stacks are too shallow to raise, so i shove. the guy utg calls off half hes stack and the other guy folds, he flips over a 8 against my a 10, and hits a flush to knock me out.
what my question is, whats the best way to play events like these which are full of bad players? i know luck is a major factor when it comes to poker and i can accept bad beats, but the last 5 times ive been there ive been knocked out by brutally bad play getting rewarded, is it best just not to play these and stick to online games where im succsessful, or is there a good strategy to win these sorts of tourneys?
the starting chip stack it 2000 and blinds are 100/100 to start moving on to 100/200 200/400 etc so very shallow structure with not much room for serious play
what gets me angry is that everytime i get knocked out its always by bad play and the villain getting lucky, il use tonights exit hand as an example
my stack was around 9000 with blinds at 600/1200 and i was on the big blind with a 10, the guy utg (who i know is a major calling station and loves to play pots with mediocre hands) limps into the pot and it comes round to another major donk who also calls and its folded round to my blind
now i know my a10 is ahead of both players because both these guys raise when they have premium hands and i didnt wanna play a pot out of position and stacks are too shallow to raise, so i shove. the guy utg calls off half hes stack and the other guy folds, he flips over a 8 against my a 10, and hits a flush to knock me out.
what my question is, whats the best way to play events like these which are full of bad players? i know luck is a major factor when it comes to poker and i can accept bad beats, but the last 5 times ive been there ive been knocked out by brutally bad play getting rewarded, is it best just not to play these and stick to online games where im succsessful, or is there a good strategy to win these sorts of tourneys?