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Sounds like you had an 18K stack preflop, or about 30bbs. The 3K raise is fairly standard, though you shouldn't only raise that size with hands like AA because perceptive opponents can figure that sort of thing out if they play enough hands with you (then again, if no one at your table is perceptive, go ahead and play in an exploitable way).
On the flop ...
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You don't mention how big are the blinds, but you say "Hero calls 8000", so I'm assuming the blinds are 4K / 8K, which means you have about 7 BB behind. This means you're SEVERELY short stacked. In this case, the play for you is pretty much on automatic pilot: find a decent hand to go all-in with.
I disagree with what you did preflop: you should've moved ...
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At first, rank, as you define it, has nothing to do with the stages of a tournament. It has to do with a thing, called the M factor. M represents the number of orbits that you will survive if you never play a hand, if you fold immediately, when your chance is given. Its formula is:
M=(Stack size)/(big blind+small blind+total antes)
(you should add one ante ...
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Basically it depends on some factors:
the available statistics and notes to the opponents.
tournament stage
your stack
opponent's stack
General Big Blind behaviour:
we tend to defend blinds against the "stealer", who is more loose/agressive than average
we tend to defend blinds in the late tournament stage
we tend to defend the blind against the big ...
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I think the biggest mistake here is not raising pre-flop. With three people in the hand and AQ out of position I think this has to be a raise, relating to some comments that I read I would be raising here 100% of the time, I don't think playing AQ out of position is great (obviously you play it, it's a monster) and so narrowing the field would be the first ...
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The common conditions/rules of being independent from luck in the tournament:
1) You are playing tournament with deep stacks and reasonable blind level lengths. It means turbo tournaments with 5 minutes per level contain enough luck-dependent situations. Not playing "turbos" will allow to avoid rapid short stack preflop all-in situation.
2) You don't ...
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See here: How are side pots built? .
I don't think the rules about side pots will change if a player is so severely short stacked. In your particular case, I think it will be:
Main Pot: 40 (10 from each player, since player 2 has the fewest chips)
Side Pot 1: 60 (player 1 has 20 left, so players 3 and 4 also put 20 chips in. 3 x 20 = 60).
Side Pot 2: 40 ...
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It would help in analyzing this hand if we knew the stack sizes of the players at the table. That could change a lot of factors. Regardless... You made a few mistakes here, but getting your money in was not one of them.
First, preflop: Against a min-raise (e.g. a raise that only increased the bet by 1x the big blind), it is almost always a big mistake to ...
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My first impression is there's not much wrong with the hand, if anything at all.
A reasonable case for 3-betting Preflop can be made, but that depends on the type of players behind you left to act. I'm more inclined to 3-Bet if they are mostly Loose-Passive.
Clearly, you have what most people consider a "Value" hand in this situation. From the looks of it, ...
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Villain's range is weighted toward Qx given his lack of interest in maximizing fold equity, so you're something like 32% to win and being given 2730:1170 = 30%, slightly correct pot odds to call chip-equity wise.
If you fold, your money equity via ICM is $411.
If you commit, 32% of the time your stack will be 7,130 against 2,870, for a money equity of ...
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What were the limits or the level of skill at play here? What's the difference in prize money between the finishing positions yet to be paid out? Without those details it's hard to say definitively, but no, the Hero did not play well here.
Open-limping is generally a bad idea anyway, doubly so because you were technically short stacked, and even more so ...
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My suggestion based off my own personal experience with house games is start with small buy-in tournaments. As the experience and comfort level grows, you can then either. Up the buy-in of the tournaments and/or transition into cash games. You can set the Buy-in caps of the cash games to limit the loss and keep the games friendly. To keep players from ...
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Depends on many factors. Like if you have any history on these players and how they play.
Personally I would have raised pre with that hand to at least get rid of any silly hands for the big blind. He could be sat there with 2 7 for all you know. But back to the actual question.
I would say that you have the strongest Ace. I would expect anyone else to ...
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I would definitely raise PF to see where I am. If you dont raise you allow trash to see the flop and secondly you have no idea if your AQ is the strongest A. If you are re-raised you can tighten your villains range PF without second guessing OTF. That alone puts you in a tough spot OTF. I would much prefer to be re-raised and knowing where I am.
As someone ...
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My opinion is not to bother too much in the beginning. Just play your style and observe others' style of play. Joining a small league has the advantage that you can learn fast about your opponents, but the disadvantage that they too have the opportunity to learn about you just as fast. In conclusion, in the beginning you might have some good short term ...
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A vast majority of the time it's going to be profitable to rebuy in any tournament. There is a stack below which rebuying is not going to be profitable, but it's not really possible to calculate this point exactly. The basic reasoning is that chip equity and money equity are not related linearly like you have calculated. For example, in a 1,000 player ...
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The monthly tournament home games I play in have the following features:
Most of the core players met each other through a free tavern league. This had the advantage of meeting people who were poker fans and we had some idea of the personalities involved.
Games are scheduled on a poker site. Most use http://www.homepokertour.com
We play by the rules, ...
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They were running some sort of online team league on PKR every tuesday, but I am not sure if thats still active.
I think there is also an official one running there.
You could also check out this page:
Online Poker World Championship
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Playing push/fold in SNG or Tournaments is sometimes tough part of game with multiple factors deciding your optimal moves. You can certainly make tables for different common situations and use them in your decision process to get general idea.
However, I'm worried that there is no "easy to remember" strategy guideline for PUSH/FOLD phase.
SNG wizzard or ...
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This is an interesting question.
I think you've played right pre-flop.
I think the continuation bet is right post flop usually, but your stack size I think means you need to either push all-in or check-(call/fold).
Against one opponent I would push in this instance. Considering the second opponent here is the BB-special, I'd probably still push. It's ...
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I would have checked the flop there. You'll still have +/- 16BB or an M of 6 left if you fold. You can pick another spot. So if the button bets, I fold. Depending on his stack / aggressivenes he might semi-bluff with a straight draw. You'll be hard pressed to shove as a response, because he'll call. Suppose he fires 2000, that'll make the pot 5700. If you ...
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Like many answers in poker, it depends. If the table you are at is wild and crazy, you can tighten up, back off and let them all duke it out. Don't sit back too long though or the luckiest of the crazies will soon be the chip leader. If the table is playing tight at this point, steal more blinds than normal. But perhaps one good strategy is, don't get into ...
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Of course that you can beat both systems by calling with KK+, but we are here to win and exploit our opponents, so we won't play only the nuts. You can build your own calling ranges to get the preflop equity that you want, but remember that here there is a trade-off between equity and how many times you actually win the HU battle. If you play only AA, ...
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I think one of the most important aspects of becoming a good player in any kind of game is knowing yourself. Everyone plays in a different way because they respond to other player's actions and to the cards they're dealt in a different way, because that's just how they are.
I suffer from the opposite problem of yours. I usually make into the money in ...
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Am I misunderstanding your question? If we are to assume that all players in a tournament have the same skill level, then the probability at a given time of a player winning the tournmanet is equal to the number of chips he has over the total number of chips in play, at that time. So varying the stacks simply would increase/decrease the liklihood of winning ...
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No, you can't replace a player's skill level with a variable stack of chips; simply because even if all players have equal skill, they will certainly play their sized stack appropriately (small stack playing conservative, cheap leader aggressive, etc.). Similarly, you cannot turn the "luck" factor into a chip amount either.
In my opinion, the most logical ...
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Like Bogdan said, over time the advantage tends to even as you get to know each other and their styles of play. Because of this, I think you can create an advantage by mixing it up and trying things you wouldn't normally do. If you're on the button with no callers and a crap hand, be aggressive with the blinds, etc. However, only do this if you feel ...
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Based on my experiences, the average pub poker player isn't aware enough to even notice how tight / loose / aggressive / passive you're playing, so don't waste effort trying to cultivate your image.
Just play nice simple ABC poker. Don't try to bluff - they'll happily call off half their stack with bottom pair, whatever your betting may be representing.
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From my own experience being aggressive is quite effective when you just joined the poker club and don't have any image. It means that from being neat you will not benefit advantage, but lose-aggressive style can give you something because opponents would be circumspect with you.
I think even if you manage to get any advantages caused by that you are a new ...
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Your partition (underdog/favorite, hand won/lost) won't reveals many things as you will have to work on average. This will give you the performance of your hand range (supposed constant) versus and average hand range met in tournaments. A long term moving average will give you the evolution of your handrange performance. The deviation will give you the ...
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