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A little help here

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  • debdobs_67debdobs_67
    edited September 2011
    In Response to Re: A little help here:
    Haha no not at all. haven't even played a hand of proper poker yet so nowhere near drunk. Again, I can give you a list of names, better than me, with worse records, and worse than me, with better records. And see if you agree. I'm positive you will agree. It'll be quite obvious really when you see the list of names.
    Posted by DOHHHHHHH
    Dohhh ya know i luvs ya so so much , please please send me the list yeah ??

    I will even end this post without a debbydobby yeah ??

    debraaaaaaaaaaa xx
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  • unknown_usernameunknown_username
    edited September 2011
    In Response to Re: A little help here:
    You are being a naughty cynic  Pod1. I made a relative statement. Altho tbf  Dohhhh is Don_90's  personal coach.Don is lucky to have a better player guide/force him thru the hoops. I hope you are not mocking Dohhhhs philanthropic traits ? I think it's laudable. I personally wish i were better positioned to offer valuable insight. My failure. Also Dohhhh you are being naughty because i am not simply a wum as you can well calculate. On a serious note however.... As far as the mtt argument goes i am not in a position to say. There clearly is a perception bias at work here. Perhaps a master of both such as lolraise could surely inject some wisdom here. This debate shouldn't be a recipe for acrimony. As an outsider i find it interesting because i don't understand tourney play at all. I thought it was all about luck and poker basics. This clearly isn't the case and it's a concrete science. How so ? I really want to know because i have tried to work it out and failed. That irritates me. So are some successful mtters just the recipients of positive variance ? It's possible depending on the sample size. You don't get these ambiguities in long-term cash. That is the nature of the differing disciplines. Tom Dwan once remarked that to be successful in a mtt, " just run good ". Are there ways of breaking out of the 'inevitable maze' of tourney play elsadog, to change destiny within a tourney format, evade the cooler death-traps and turn it into a consistently winning strategy over time ?
    Posted by BLACK_MASS

    In 2004 I used to get a young player railing my games. He would rail any decent mtt player and learn. He went on to be the world number one mtt player for a number of years. He didn't have some run good to achieve that - he was/is good. There are numerous mtt players on Sky who show an mtt ROI in excess of 50% over a number of years. I have been profitable in mtt play for 10 years - every year but one. Now was that 9 years of run good or one year of run bad?

    Being continually successful in mtts means you have to overcome the high variance of mtts. It's not easy but it's very achievable. The way to overcome the ''cooler death traps'' is to have sufficient chips to live through them. An ability to not go into panic mode and the tenacity to rebuild again. To achieve that an ability to pick your opponent and the relevant chip stacks is paramount.
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  • Poker_FailPoker_Fail
    edited September 2011
    In Response to Re: A little help here:
    The OP raises 3x - standard raise. The villain re-raises to 240 from 1800 stack. The OP re-reraises to 800. The villain still has 1k and can rebuy up to 3000 if the flop is bad. Standard rebuy tactics. A lot depends on how much £11 means to you. Many good players play to win and rightly or wrongly believe that a good starting stack is imperative to that. Also depending on what other games he may be in he will understand that some mtts will be throwaways each evening. If he is a winning player who can take down the big prize-money then he will probably set himself a limit to his rebuys in any mtt and work up to that limit. Go and watch any mid to high stakes rebuy on PS and you will see this kind of play again and again. The villain did nothing wrong IMO - standard rebuy tactics.
    Posted by elsadog
    I completely missed the fact that he could fold a bad flop, thanks for great reply.
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  • pod1pod1
    edited September 2011
    lol blackmass,jj knows im jesting.he has helped me out many a time. what i love about your posts is there is a least 1 word in each and everyone i have to look up to double check the meaning.do you go to bed reading a dictionary? is your real name "collins" the plot thickens!
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