Tribeca Challengers.... Skip the 25-50c level?

RasTa

Just wondering if there is any point in playing the 25-50c level since the buy in is the same as 50/1 ? Or would the swings be to great to jump from 10/20c to 50/1 ?

Lafortezza

Bet sizing and pot size will be bigger at 50/1 so variance will be bigger. What's your bankroll in terms of buy-ins? 20+ and you should be ok as long as you're happy to move back down if it all goes wonky.

El Stuntman

RasTa wrote:

Just wondering if there is any point in playing the 25-50c level since the buy in is the same as 50/1 ? Or would the swings be to great to jump from 10/20c to 50/1 ?

personally I'm looking forward to .25/.50 as I like playing as deep as possible, I wish all levels allowed you to buy in for 200 BBs

what BR do you anticipate jumping to .50/1 at?

RasTa

I was going to jump to .25/.50 when i had $1500 as I thought the max buy in was $80. Looking at the tables now it seems most seats are occupied by people sitting with under $100, might switch plan and jump early and sit under-funded with $60

spectre

Glad to see you're moving up Simo. 2000BB is plenty for .25/.50

You could start off by sitting down with $50 and top-up to the max when you become comfortable or when you're up against fish with big tanks.

Edit: To answer your question, skipping levels is not such a hot idea. Also, each level acts as a natural goal i.e. move up when you amass 2000BB for the next level

a-k-47

personally i think playing at .25/.50 on tribeca is a waste of time. 80% at least of the buyins are between $10 and $30.. i rarely see players buying in at the max.

ianmc38

.25/.50 on Tribeca is horrific. The game selection is difficult as well as it's hard to find players with full tanks.

I dont think there's many noticable difference in standard between the .25/.50 and .50/1 levels. The one thing I did notice at .50/1 over the Christmas period is there are lots of 3/4 tabling uber rocks playing at .50/1 who are making good money grinding it out. There's maybe 5 of these at .25/.50.

El Stuntman

ianmc38 wrote:

I dont think there's many noticable difference in standard between the .25/.50 and .50/1 levels. The one thing I did notice at .50/1 over the Christmas period is there are lots of 3/4 tabling uber rocks playing at .50/1 who are making good money grinding it out. There's maybe 5 of these at .25/.50.

this be good info

Phantom Lord was saying the same thing...

Sparky1808

I started a new challenge and goal, about 3 weeks ago in terms of grinding my ways up the levels, from $0.50/$1 and hopefully advance to $2/$4nl in a few months time, as i've had plenty of experience previously at $2/$4nl and know whats it all about.

So haven't go much time to play Tribeca over the last 3 weeks unfortunately with the Christmas period, but in the 47 hours I've squeezed in, over the last 3 weeks, have been quite profitable enough in my opinion, or at least I think so, considering i've taken quite a lot of bad beats over quite a few sessions.

phantom_lord

yeah, there's about 2 players I've played with at 25/50 that I might think about avoiding (outta about 1500+ so far!).

I didn't realise the buy-in was the same for .5/1, I think I'll still wait til I've 2000bbs tho. I'm kinda finding it hard to accumulate many chips at this level, mainly due to all the shortstacks, one night I remember I busted at least 15 players, and still made f all.

digiman

The 0.25/0.5 on Tribeca is very poor in fairness, I would not consider myself a good cash payer but I have had not many losing sessions at this level.
I would be one of those players that buys in everytime for $30 at this level and play 3 tables, but I would say about 40% of players buy in for the minimum. These are mostly the worst players there is so you will not win.
I would recommend that you play this level as it is really easy to make money from it in my opinon. I have only played a few sessions at 0.5/1 and I felt I was out of my comfort zone to be honest but that is just me.

ianmc38

Sparky1808 wrote:

I started a new challenge and goal, about 3 weeks ago in terms of grinding my ways up the levels, from $0.50/$1 and hopefully advance to $2/$4nl in a few months time, as i've had plenty of experience previously at $2/$4nl and know whats it all about.

So haven't go much time to play Tribeca over the last 3 weeks unfortunately with the Christmas period, but in the 47 hours I've squeezed in, over the last 3 weeks, have been quite profitable enough in my opinion, or at least I think so, considering i've taken quite a lot of bad beats over quite a few sessions.

VPIP of 38? Thats crazy talk.

Sparky1808

Is that quite high, or quite low or what? I only play 6 max, by the way.

phantom_lord

Sparky1808 wrote:

Is that quite high, or quite low or what? I only play 6 max, by the way.

that's pretty high, I think mine is something like 26/27.

BigDragon

Sparky1808 wrote:

Is that quite high, or quite low or what? I only play 6 max, by the way.

<12 Rock
<20 Tight
20-30 Medium
30-40 Loose
40+ Very Loose
50+ Maniac

phantom_lord

I just made more in 600 hands at .5/1 than in 13k at .25/50. hmmm.

RasTa

Wait for a downswing.... I think i'll give 25/50c a shot when i get $1,000.... There are some lunatics on toinght

ianmc38

Sparky1808 wrote:

Is that quite high, or quite low or what? I only play 6 max, by the way.

That's extremely loose preflop. Mine over my last 10k hands has been around 24. My lifetime VPIP is still around 30 but coming down steadily. There aren't too many winning players with VPIP that high.

El Stuntman

ianmc38 wrote:

That's extremely loose preflop. Mine over my last 10k hands has been around 24. My lifetime VPIP is still around 30 but coming down steadily. There aren't too many winng players with VPIP that high.

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mine's around 26

ligger

Checked my old account and mine is 43..(11k hands)
Checked my new account (where I'm playing much tighter). 1.5k hands and it is 43:)

At least I am consistent.;)

ianmc38

ligger wrote:

Checked my old account and mine is 43..(11k hands)
Checked my new account (where I'm playing much tighter). 1.5k hands and it is 43:)

At least I am consistent.;)

That's horrific. You must be bleeding money left right and centre.

ianmc38

RasTa wrote:

Wait for a downswing.... I think i'll give 25/50c a shot when i get $1,000.... There are some lunatics on toinght

I couldnt leave the tables last night as the money was being handed out. One guy check raised me all in on the river with ace high when I had quads. Lol.

ligger

ianmc38 wrote:

That's horrific. You must be bleeding money left right and centre.

Ian,

Am a "bit" on the loose side. See attached for figs. What do you think?

ianmc38

ligger wrote:

Ian,

Am a "bit" on the loose side. See attached for figs. What do you think?

Undoubtedlly, it's an excellent winrate! Give us a look at your positional stats. I have a feeling your limping KTs UTG

Keep up the good work.

ligger

Raising with K10 utg;) See attached.

[nicK]

ianmc38 wrote:

I couldnt leave the tables last night as the money was being handed out. One guy check raised me all in on the river with ace high when I had quads. Lol.

did you call?
must start playing tribeca again.. party has completly rocked up this past few weeks..

ianmc38

ligger wrote:

Raising with K10 utg;) See attached.

I'm not sure on what the stats should look like for full ring, but it looks like you're playing way too loose from UTG.

ianmc38

Here are my stats from the past week. I guess I'd be labelled "standard tag"

roryc

I jumped from 25/50 to 2/4

I just couldnt take any players at that level seriously...

ligger

ianmc38 wrote:

Here are my stats from the past week. I guess I'd be labelled "standard tag"

You are much tighter all round. Are you multi tabling for these figs?

ianmc38

ligger wrote:

You are much tighter all round. Are you multi tabling for these figs?

At least 2 tabling. Sometimes 3. Depends on my mood really. My figures aren't overly tight. They're standard tag really.