strategy for team events

nicnicnic

being a captain on the upcoming team event in the city west I've been thinking about strategy in team events. Now my worst fear is that the best strategy is for the whole team to not play and get blinded out (or basically just play premium hands abc poker). alot of what i saw at the team event in waterford on sunday tells me its the most disciplined team that's will win, meaning very basic and boring poker.

The team who came 3rd on sunday all finished between 25th and 30th, now I'm not saying they blinded themselves out as this is not the case but I reckon in the city west a team could conceivably blind themselves into a place.

as for the winners, well the team reminded me of the time i visited the giants causeway, there was that many rocks on it. I was told that at one stage connie made a move but after some investigation's i found out that it was just to go to the toilet ( I knew it couldn't of been the bar after all they are kerrymen)

Goodluck2me

i think the best strategy is to take as many risks early on as possible

NickyOD

Obviously it depends on the points structure. The originally proposed stucture for the city west meant you get half your points for getting half way through the field, but now I think you only get a third which obbiously favours a more aggressive approach.

I think the overall strategy for almost every team will be to play very conservative so it will be all about micro-edges. The better players should be able to spot this and make moves for pots at the right times so I think there will be a lot of positional poker played early on. Having said all this if you look at the winners of some of the biggest events in Ireland over the past year, they got there by making as a many mistakes as possible so **** knows. I might just go completely ****ing crazy in this event and tell my team to play however the hell they feel. It's going to be a savage tournament. I can't wait.

TheRock

Being on the team Nicky you know my opinion "Tight Is Right":D

But seriously I think there is going to have to be a lot of changes in strategy through the event, all the gears will have to be used. I think the event is too long for anyone just to blind themselves into a place. I think eveyone will have to be just playing their usual games early and it will only late in the event when what teams are left and what places are needed will team strategy come into play.

At the end of the Waterford event the teams left in WERE just blinding themselves out. But at that stage the had the chips to do it.
There was some very loose and to be honest some very poor play early in the event and the teams left in had decent stacks they could sit on unless they got a monster. I can't see this being the case with field assembled for city west.

Some interesting changes happened then late, anyone whose team was out and was only playing for the individual prices, could really attack the players left in contention in the team event. I was thieving relentlessly, but as you know I only have 6 starting hands;)

NickyOD

TheRock wrote:

as you know I only have 6 starting hands;)

Alan if you were any tighter you'd be inside out.

nicnicnic

TheRock wrote:

I was thieving relentlessly, but as you know I only have 6 starting hands;)

Alan it is not considered a steel when you raise with AKs AKos KK QQ JJ or AA, just to clarify this for you.

connie147

Well Nicky,for what its worth,blinding yourself out from the start is certailly not going to work.The field in Waterford last Sunday and the field being assembled for the city west bear no comparrison.A team is going to HAVE to gather chips on the first day of the tournament and depending on who has what at the start of day 2, plan there stratagy again for day 2.
As for last sunday Nicky,we lost a player after 30mins of the tournament,and with a player down so early,we knew we needed to gather chips if the 3 of us remaining were to go deep enough to make up for the early exit of one of our team.The rock like image that you helped give us actually came to our benefit as we found ourselves collecting pots uncontested.Im going to suggest to big slick to give you a copy of our trophy as you played a starring role for us and right into our hands.Go raibh mile maith agat. loooooooooool

nicnicnic

glad to be of assistance as always to my kerry poker brothers, but rather then a trophy I'm prepared to take a cut of the winnings, which i no doubt deserve considering how pivotal a role you consider I played in your victory;)