Sunday Million Advise for Tourney Newb

peeko

Hey all, I won a ticket into the Sunday Millions on Stars tomorrow.

I've been wanting to play this a long time now. I haven't had much experience with tourney's and was hoping some of you could give me advise on how to play a tourney this big.

I generally play a tight aggressive game. 6 Max.

I really wanna play in the big game, but there is also the warm up game. Should I be considering playing the early game instead? I understand it's a 8/9 hour game, but I'll call in sick to work if I go deep in it.

Hope you can share some gold dust

dacman

Unregister and enter the warm up game. Alot better chance in this IMO

RoundTower

dacman wrote:

Unregister and enter the warm up game. Alot better chance in this IMO

I predict you will get some bad advice in this thread but this will be the worst. The Million is way softer than the warm up game as it is satellite-qualifier heavy.

Play tight until you get short stacked and then go all in a lot.

Ste05

I've only played in this once (I managed to cash ). And in this wealth of experience, :rolleyes: I found that it really is just a case of playing TAG and not over rating your opponents. You're not going to be playing tables full of HJ's, Roundtower's and NFR's. Just play tight and aggressive poker, don't be afraid or overawed and you should be fine. Forget about the money you're playing for. I know it's difficult when you're playing for, what would be a sizeable % of your BR had you bought in directly, but all that does is upset your game and put you off playing properly.

Then just prey you don't run AA into KK when a K flops. :rolleyes: so run well and take it down, now break a leg.

Goodluck2me

fold KK to pushes from under the gun...especially when jacks have been coming out a lot....

Mr. Flibble

Pay attention to people who limp then fold to a raise PF. Blind stealing wise, if you raise people give you more credit for a hand if you are raising after a limper and your fold eq for the blinds goes up a lot.

E&OE

luckylucky

well done peeko, STE05 is spot on imo, don't think about the money, just play TAG poker, just try to make good decisions and enjoy it, as you say it takes 8 to 9 hours so try to relax yourself into the tournament, don't get too wound up early on. Anyway go for it and gl.

TrueDub

An alternative piece of advice, if you're not used to playing tournies much, is to unregister from the tournament and not play in it.

You then get the buy-in in tournament$ and can enter a lot of smaller SNGs and MTTs - gaining a lot more experience for your money, and, in the SNGs anyway, a greater chance of cashing.

dacman

RoundTower wrote:

I predict you will get some bad advice in this thread but this will be the worst. The Million is way softer than the warm up game as it is satellite-qualifier heavy.

Play tight until you get short stacked and then go all in a lot.

Fair point. I rarely play pokerstars. i just dont fancy like playing tourneys with a Million players.

kpnuts

dacman wrote:

Fair point. I rarely play pokerstars. i just dont fancy like playing tourneys with a Million players.

I'm donating in both tonight. GL on your debut, peeko!

LuckyLloyd

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LuckyLloyd

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kpnuts

LuckyLloyd wrote:

Hardluck with that one anyway KP.

Yeah, I played very well. Got my money in as a 4/1 dog in Level 2. Very unlucky that LOL.

BigCityBanker

KP why aint u gone to Clonmel?

kpnuts

BigCityBanker wrote:

KP why aint u gone to Clonmel?

too many pikeys

LuckyLloyd

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shoutman

Presume you are still in otherwise we would of gotten an update L-Dog

LuckyLloyd

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peeko

Thanks for all the advise peeps, just started.

peeko

Wasn't meant to be this time!

Thought the all in was a bit fishy... Looks like I was fish!

Exit Hand:

PokerStars Game #8282075692: Tournament #40962363, $200+$15 Hold'em No Limit - Level VI (300/600) - 2007/02/04 - 17:53:59 (ET)
Table '40962363 50' 9-max Seat #7 is the button
Seat 1: kidpkrJR (13575 in chips)
Seat 2: buldos (47575 in chips)
Seat 3: 8&9 baller (36975 in chips)
Seat 4: peeko (16275 in chips)
Seat 5: Any2WillDew (7350 in chips)
Seat 6: CallAndDie (17600 in chips)
Seat 7: balerno (12050 in chips)
Seat 8: James C. (29550 in chips)
Seat 9: Mazak14 (475 in chips)
James C.: posts small blind 300
Mazak14: posts big blind 475 and is all-in
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to peeko [Jc Jd]
kidpkrJR: folds
buldos: folds
8&9 baller: raises 1325 to 1800
peeko: calls 1800
Any2WillDew: folds
CallAndDie: folds
balerno: folds
James C.: folds
*** FLOP *** [Th 5s 6c]
8&9 baller: bets 1800
peeko: raises 3600 to 5400
8&9 baller: calls 3600
*** TURN *** [Th 5s 6c] [9s]
8&9 baller: checks
peeko: checks
*** RIVER *** [Th 5s 6c 9s] [2d]
8&9 baller: bets 29775 and is all-in
peeko: calls 9075 and is all-in
*** SHOW DOWN ***
8&9 baller: shows [Ts Td] (three of a kind, Tens)
peeko: shows [Jc Jd] (a pair of Jacks)
8&9 baller collected 31600 from side pot
Mazak14: shows [6s Qh] (a pair of Sixes)
8&9 baller collected 1725 from main pot
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 33325 Main pot 1725. Side pot 31600. | Rake 0
Board [Th 5s 6c 9s 2d]
Seat 1: kidpkrJR folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 2: buldos folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 3: 8&9 baller showed [Ts Td] and won (33325) with three of a kind, Tens
Seat 4: peeko showed [Jc Jd] and lost with a pair of Jacks
Seat 5: Any2WillDew folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 6: CallAndDie folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 7: balerno (button) folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 8: James C. (small blind) folded before Flop
Seat 9: Mazak14 (big blind) showed [6s Qh] and lost with a pair of Sixes

valor

3 bet preflop, call flop.