Ok. I have been playing quite a bit on the week nights at Seneca 1-2 NL. Its decent money but looking to get into tourneys. Anyone have regular games locally they do?
I am not in the mood to go up at 10am or 7pm to play in a 200 dollar tourney with rebuys.
First Event - TBA - $20 buy in + $5 bounty
Tourney will pay out top 4 if we have 30 people. ($250, $150, $80, $20)
Starting with $4,500 in chips and blinds start at 25-25 and double every 15 min after the first round of 20 minutes. You will get $5 for every player you knock out during the tourney in any round. No rebuys. We also can debate if we want to ante after 10 the first 10 rounds too.
Also thinking that once tables start breaking up from the tourney, we can start up a $.50/$1.00 cash game (20min, 50max buyin)
Don’t waste your time with low stakes tournament poker. 99% of the time they just cater to the unskilled players who just want to get lucky because the levels increase too fast and it doesn’t leave enough time for the good players to actually play poker.
I can handle blinds, but I like to play poker, not just make the first 15 minutes of a tourney an all-in fest. If you are any good at poker you know longer blinds cater to better players, which you probably aren’t.
Cash games are more profitable anyway. Theres so many donks these days just pushing because they saw someone on TV do it. You can pretty much call an all-in with TPTK most of the time and win at the SSNL cash games.
Its not the blind structure. I just want to play more tournaments. They only have 2 tourneys a day and both are hard to get to so wondering if anyone around here gets weekly games together with all the people on this board.
Whats the point of in-house tournaments? You will get maybe 7-10 players and buy-in maybe $20-$50? Is winning ~$100-$300 (assuming you come in 1st place) really worth it? Unless you just like to play for fun then that’s different.
It sounds as though you are too old school to come to understand how tournament poker has evolved. No longer are there set and standard rules on how tournaments should be run, instead as the popularity surges so do the various guidelines and styles/types of games that are run. Apparently you are a dinosaur and are incapable of adapting to this style of play. Sooner or later that meteor is gonna hit buddy, and chances are the meteor will be in the form of an ugly pimple faced teenager wearing clothes that are too big and is texting on his cell the whole time.
Playing with tunnel vision likely makes you an easy mark for those with a diverse skill set and ability to alter their play style throughout the course of a game. Not just betting patterns, but subtle emotion and body language.
In regards to the first 15 mins becoming an all-in fest, sure, it’s often that way. Does this mean that you can’t play your traditional boring “Play like the Pros” style of poker? Sure you could if you’d like, but you’ll likely be outgunned after a few rounds. Could you be ahead following a “Super System” type of play? Sure, but you could also be out just as easily, especially with a low amount of starting chips ( 1000, 1500 ).
If you are incapable of using the blind structure to your advantage and understanding it’s influence on the composition of the game, perhaps you should go back to reading the outdated “Caro’s Book of Tells” and bitching with your senior friends about how you lost all your chips to some teenager that doesn’t know how to play the game and sucked you out.
I love how you talk about this “new” style of poker that has suddenly happened but you did not elaborate on it at all. Poker has not changed at all. The tighter the table, the looesr you play, the looser the table, the tighter you play. I love how you cited a bunch of books I’ve never read.
Boring play like the pros? Most pros are LAG players. I would hardly call that style boring. If you think shorter blinds and higher blinds in relation to chip stack favors better players you suck at poker. Basically what I’m saying is, I would love for you (the crappier player) to stick around in the tournament longer and play a lot of hands because that means the % of hands the good players (such as myself) have the opportunity to win go up. You have no grasp over poker. End of discussion.
FYI: I’m 20 years old. I’m the teenager who takes your money.
And to the OP: If you’re going to play tournaments, play A LOT. It is very easy to get discouraged or encouraged (and then discouraged) if you only play a few tournaments. The ROI swings you will have with just playing a few can be very discouraging, but if you are a good player the ROI will even out in the long run. So basically, if you’re going to play tournaments, stick to them and don’t look back good or bad.
Ya the point of the thread was to see if anyone wanted to get together once or twice a week for fun games like $20-30 dollar buyins. Ya dumbass, its not a way to make a living on poker or looking for advice. Its something social and fun to play in tourneys than the typical cash games at the casino since the tourneys they have there do not fit in my schedule. I play sundays there in the $225 buyin tourney for real cash. Usually you can jump in the saturday $25 and win a spot and end up pretty profitable.
When you grow up, maybe you can stop talking shit and show up to the big boy casino. Now be quiet and let the adults talk.
Sigh, you are extremely terrible and incapable of comprehending simple arguments. How should i deconstruct your blabbering nonsense? By paragraph? By sentence? Regrettably I have neither the time nor the patience to do so, and will just sum it up with a few points.
I stated that the way tournaments are run have been changing. As a result, many people are uncomfortable with the dynamic rule sets and become flustered when they sit at a table they are unfamiliar with. You bitched about “all-in fests” as it appears you are unable to steady the wavering tide of the first few rounds… this is your inexperience on display, not mine. Consider reading before attempting to flame, it’d do you some good and save you the embarrassment as of now the only thing you have accomplished is coming off like a whiny punk bitch.
Since you are so vastly uneducated I’d love to elaborate on the essence of the game and what many view as required readings of poker, but I won’t. I’ll tell you that “Super System” is a book written by Doyle, the king of LAG play. “Play Poker like the Pros” is a novice piece of questionable literature written by Helmuth that focuses on super tight play and patience, a strategy many beginners follow as they encapsulate the feel of a casino level cash or tournament game. This is also a strategy that will often get you butchered yet has it’s place when the time comes.
Beating your unimpressive lot of loser meathead domestic driving friends in a game of back woods poker is completely unimpressive. Please, since you offer nothing but wrong advice, sit back down at the kids table and wait for us grown ups to finish talking.
Pretty much any day during the week except Wednesdays and sometimes mondays I play at UB once school starts. I am up for anything: Tourney, small dealers choice cash games, just normal hold em.
the first wednesday of the month, seneca has a tourny, usually 80 guys or so, $120 buy in i think…no re-buys. i fair better in cash games so i stick to my 1/2 tables.
in the next couple months my league will be starting up again…its a $45 buy in tourny once or twice a month, on a saturday at 7PM…usually about 120 people…pays top 10% of finishers, and there’s a point structure and after 10 tournaments the top XX (i forget if it’s 20 ot 30) players in points get free entry into the “tournament of champions” which is basically a tourny with a prize pool that’s been given a $5 contribution from every buy in from every tournament from the whole 10 tournys. usually a $3000 or so prize pool…and every player that makes it in the point race is getting paid at least something.
also, i know a number of friends that would be interested in a 3 or 4 table friendly house game…a couple of which that do nothing but play poker for a living lol.
This sounds exactly like the game/league I was just in. I was playing at a 2 table house near the cheek police station, run by a guy named Matt. Know him?
Anyways, Tuesday is the best night for me… I’d prefer tournament style, but cash is OK, some other games are alright also.