FFR poker league -dead-

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Originally Posted by ddrmaniacaaa

The casino my dad goes to only features 3/6 NLHE/NLO (switches each round). He finds this pretty easy.

Awein: These are the kind of coolers i experience everyday. So far, im finding that about 90% of the time I am making the right decisions in the tourneys overall, and am only going all in when I have the absolute nuts. Preflop I have only gone in with AA KK or maybe AK, unless I am playing the daily 90k, which have faster blinds and antes. I hate outlasting 39k people only to lose to a kicker or cooler.

Also, anyone have an opinion on this? the daily 90k, which is a freeroll with 40k entrants, has 60 paid positions. Positions 1-7 get a ticket to the $55 Ninety Grand guarenteed tournement of their choice. The other 53 get $5.50. Although an entry into another tournament would be nice, I feel as if the $5.50 would be better. Less than 20% of the field at the ninety grand tourney recieves any money at all, so your not gaurenteed anything if you do win one of those tickets. This and the fact that the turbo blinds of the freeroll mean your never there for longer than 2 hours make some of the reason to earn some quick cash. Thouts?

Tourneys with fields that large are almost 0 skill dude. It doesn't matter what you're shoving with; even when you're way ahead, you're going to have to activate god mode to make it to those paid positions.

You're going to have to get it all in a ton to win this tourney, and even if you're shoving the nuts every time, you're almost never more than an 80% favorite to win. Let's say you only get it all in pre or on the flop while covered 10 times in the whole tourney, and every time you have them dominated (80%). The probability of you remaining by the end is only 11%. In reality, you're going to have to dodge way more bullets than that too (By 20 dominated all-ins, you're down to only 1% chance of still being there).


It's pretty pointless. Just deposit a few dollars from your bank account and stop wasting your time.



With regards to earlier: there was a 3 man pot. gazeebo went all in I think, you called and I re-raised you. You call. Or something like that. There was over 300 in the pot by the flop.

My 3 bet range here is pretty small and consists of only massive hands. Since gazeebo was already all in, there's almost no value at all to re-raising you unless I have a huge hand. Most strong hands here get a call, not a raise.

You should be folding most of your range here to my raise, because you're almost never ahead of my raising range.


As such, when the flop comes off like, 4A8 or whatever the flop was, you should never bet an 8. It's a profound mistake and you'll lose a ton of money taking this line. Again, since gazeebo is all in, you can only win my money. Pushing me out of the pot here won't win you any more money.

Of course, it'll effectively mean I'm not in the pot, but that's irrelevant. An 8 is probably not ahead of gazeebos range either, meaning you're still going to lose the pot most of the time.

Think about what hands I'm re-raising you with pre-flop here and how many of them have an ace in them. Most of them do. As such, I'm almost never folding when you make that bet, so you're left to completely hang yourself on the rest of the streets and or have no showdown value.


verdict: with gazeebo already all in on that flop with an 8, check back. I'm probably going to check down, even if I have you crushed. If you really truly believe your 8 is good, than you should also be checking down.

In reality you should fold pre in that spot though.