Sunday Million thoughts?

Four of a kind

Am going to play the sunday millions this sunday for the first time. Have been thinking of playing it for a long time now....so decided why not.

anyone here ever done well in these? Do they get crapshooty early on?

connie147

I wouldnt goas far as saying it gets crapshooty early on, buy your right in thinking it gets crapshooty pretty quickley. After 1 hour, you come back from the break at 200-400 blinds, so if you got off to a slow start and say you down to 8k, you've only 20 bb's. So unless you double through, it gets crapshooty before the 2nd hour is up(and thats when the antes kick in)

GL in it anyway.

Connie

Requiem4adream

It's the heaviest satellited tournament online, a sizeable proportion of the 6000+ field get in from $3rebuys or $10 double shootouts,so the average skill level of field is ....well...average! :rolleyes: Usually you'll have 1 or 2 good players per table.

Structure plays fine with a good start and difficult with a bad start but you can apply those sentiments to most mtt's. I'd say most half decent players will be +ev in it - the obvious problem is most people wont ever play a large enough sample to find their true expectation in it, due to the size of the buy-in and it's weekly nature. Give it a spin, no reason to approach it differently than any other game.

a147pro

Its like any large entry MTT. Play tight and run good and you'll make the money.

the main thing is, it being your first time, don't let yourself be intimidated by the buy in.

mormank

the buy in shouldnt be intimitading at aall...its only about 140 bucks these days..the only thing would be certain jumps in the money once close to the final table i would imagine..the buy in shouldnt be a crutch at all!!

elshambo

Play tight as said above,
if you get AA or KK early play them hard some mug will call

get PLENTY of sleep,my first time I finished bout 13th
Hadnt slept proper for about 2 days before (insominia)
about 6:15 in morn(Ish?) made a bad call and was out, call was totally due to lack of sleep
Annoying thing was i was totally bossing the table for about 30 mins before, me going out got a mix of gg and thank god

now its only 140 quid its less "ooh its a lot of money" for the first 30 mins you will get some people make massive raises as not sure what to do with big chip stacks, ignore or over top (they will call)

Four of a kind

Cheers guys. will take all the above on board. Not put off by the buy in at all, I just don't want it to effect my decision making early on if a big hand comes up.

regards
Carlo

Ramiriquez

Good luck in it

30something

One other thing not yet mentioned. The players tend to raise pre-flop comparitively big in the early stages (at level I 25/50 its not uncommon to see the pot opened for over 200) and you see an unusual amount of calls of those raises.

If you do get AA KK early on, don't be afraid of raising big and playing hard on dry flops as there is a good chance you will be paid.

elshambo

Spurred on by your post i played the million, meaning i had to go back on the stars site for the first time in about a year

out of the 100 grand when my pockets get beaten by a5 unsuited making a flush on river

less than 5 mins later out of the million when my AQ squeeze from BB all in is called by KJ unsuited (for most of his chips) K on turn

just once id like to go out of a big tourni with the worst hand, just to see what its like

That site breaks my b*lls and u owe me buddy;)

dbcagain

incase you didnt know its the sunday 1.5million from next week

the warm up is also going up to 750k

check 2+2 for details i think

Four of a kind

down to last 1300 out of 8300. pay out starts at 1260.have average stack. Wayyy to fast of a structure, but sure i suppose it has to be done. won't play in it again i don't think.

nutboy

will keep an eye on u carlo im working so ill be able to watch u at final table....danny

Four of a kind

nutboy wrote: »

will keep an eye on u carlo im working so ill be able to watch u at final table....danny

lol. 700 left. still in there. 74k with 2500/5000 ante 500. crazy fast but trying to nick blinds once a round and its working so far
Just got moved from an ATM table so bit disappointed with that.

FuttBucker

Four of a kind wrote: »

lol. 700 left. still in there. 74k with 2500/5000 ante 500. crazy fast but trying to nick blinds once a round and its working so far
Just got moved from an ATM table so bit disappointed with that.

what your screenname?

Four of a kind

FuttBucker wrote: »

what your screenname?

chicoelnino

elshambo

Just checked in on ya
Nice one with the QQ
A5?

Gud Luck!

Four of a kind

elshambo wrote: »

Just checked in on ya
Nice one with the QQ
A5?

Gud Luck!

cheers dude. yeah bit of a mad call by your man with A 5. he knew i did'nt play a hand in an hour and decides to insta call.

am getting rotten cards apart from the QQ in the past 2 hours though.

just trying to squeeze as much out of it as I can without getting run over.

elshambo

Four of a kind wrote: »

cheers dude. yeah bit of a mad call by your man with A 5. he knew i did'nt play a hand in an hour and decides to insta call.

am getting rotten cards apart from the QQ in the past 2 hours though.

just trying to squeeze as much out of it as I can without getting run over.

Sometimes in a tourni like that getting no cards around about this time aint a bad thing, stops ya getting involved

Four of a kind

too true. first time playing in the sunday millions and don't think i'll play it again....very fast after the first break as you know yourself.

nutboy

just back from work looking good carlo.i agree with ya just take down 500k and never play it again.best of luck

Four of a kind

nutboy wrote: »

just back from work looking good carlo.i agree with ya just take down 500k and never play it again.best of luck

lol. cheers danny!

Four of a kind

227 left.

nutboy

hard to find spots now without getting commited but 45-48k raises seem to be enough.playing well gl

nutboy

ul wp good return on investment

nutboy

u headin to galway this week?

Four of a kind

Busto :mad: 169th for $1800

exit hand:

PokerStars Game #19157702678: Tournament #96572588, $200+$15 Hold'em No Limit - Level XXIII (12500/25000) - 2008/07/27 - 22:42:02 (ET)
Table '96572588 367' 9-max Seat #7 is the button
Seat 1: kjordan_23 (716826 in chips)
Seat 2: rickyhatton (275747 in chips)
Seat 3: chicoelnino (230174 in chips)
Seat 4: niek112 (748350 in chips)
Seat 5: dabigmon (113115 in chips)
Seat 6: BrianW 31 (187992 in chips)
Seat 7: Ivan MC 2007 (185552 in chips)
Seat 8: Xandercage29 (660338 in chips)
Seat 9: rob42359 (180496 in chips)
kjordan_23: posts the ante 2500
rickyhatton: posts the ante 2500
chicoelnino: posts the ante 2500
niek112: posts the ante 2500
dabigmon: posts the ante 2500
BrianW 31: posts the ante 2500
Ivan MC 2007: posts the ante 2500
Xandercage29: posts the ante 2500
rob42359: posts the ante 2500
Xandercage29: posts small blind 12500
rob42359: posts big blind 25000
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to chicoelnino
kjordan_23: folds
rickyhatton: folds
chicoelnino: raises 50000 to 75000
niek112: folds
dabigmon: folds
BrianW 31: folds
Ivan MC 2007: folds
Xandercage29: calls 62500
rob42359: folds
*** FLOP *** [9h Jc 9c]
Xandercage29: checks
chicoelnino: checks
*** TURN *** [9h Jc 9c] [8h]
Xandercage29: checks
chicoelnino: bets 152674 and is all-in
Xandercage29: calls 152674
*** RIVER *** [9h Jc 9c 8h] [2s]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
Xandercage29: shows [8s 8d] (a full house, Eights full of Nines)
chicoelnino: shows (a pair of Nines)
Xandercage29 collected 502848 from pot
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 502848 | Rake 0
Board [9h Jc 9c 8h 2s]
Seat 1: kjordan_23 folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 2: rickyhatton folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 3: chicoelnino showed and lost with a pair of Nines
Seat 4: niek112 folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 5: dabigmon folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 6: BrianW 31 folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 7: Ivan MC 2007 (button) folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 8: Xandercage29 (small blind) showed [8s 8d] and won (502848) with a full house, Eights full of Nines
Seat 9: rob42359 (big blind) folded before Flop


why I did'nt push all in on the flop I'll never know. I put him on 55 or 77. man I'm a silly c^$t like that. I reckon he would have folded on the flop.

oh well....

cheers all for the support.

kakak1

Anyone know who gio_piso(Dublin) is who finished 8th for 19K in the Stars million.

Is this the highest place for an Irish entry ?

Four of a kind

nutboy wrote: »

u headin to galway this week?

heading to vegas saturday so won't make galway. The IPT event on Friday should be a good tourney.

H8GHOTI

Congrats. Good result in such a large field.

I noticed you played until almost 4am. Any idea what time it finishes at?
Just wondering for when if I every managed to Final Table.

ionapaul

If you final table you won't be going into work in the morning, no way no how...if you need sleep that is.

Four of a kind

H8GHOTI wrote: »

Congrats. Good result in such a large field.

I noticed you played until almost 4am. Any idea what time it finishes at?
Just wondering for when if I every managed to Final Table.

Yeah it was almost 4am when i exited. I'd say it would have been another 2+ hours for final table to be reached....only a guess. But yes i agree that if you final tabled it you would'nt be at work next morning...unless there was something wrong with you

Coillte_Bhoy

Nice result.

Four of a kind

kakak1 wrote: »

Anyone know who gio_piso(Dublin) is who finished 8th for 19K in the Stars million.



Anyone know who this is?

H8GHOTI

Four of a kind wrote: »

Yeah it was almost 4am when i exited. I'd say it would have been another 2+ hours for final table to be reached....only a guess. But yes i agree that if you final tabled it you would'nt be at work next morning...unless there was something wrong with you

Just saw on Poker News that it was 9.5 hrs before the Final Table was reached :eek:
You really would need to be well rested and/or have a good bit of Red Bull or something, to keep the concentration up.

You'd want Monday off work, for sure!

doke

Well played that man!