****Official Beginner/Basic Question Thread****

[shiddy_chicken]

Originally Posted by Rusemandingo

wiz is horrible at shortstack situations like this. The ranges it originally has are usually pretty bad too. Did you put your own shoving and calling/overcalling ranges?

This instinctually feels like an easy fold to me. BB is set to bust before you and KQ really isnt that good of a hand. I think the only way I can begin find a call with KQ is if BB is a saavy player and you can put button on ATC.

No, didn't put any of my own ranges in... Is there a 'standard' range that ppl use/change to or is it just a case of figuring it out my self?

[epix-]

sometimes i feel like doing a rush tourney or other smallish mtts

as im playing stts at fulltilt without ante i wanted to ask a very general question about the M-zone theory.

is there a simple way to adjust my normal stt-icm lategame strategy into an MTT m-zone strategy? when under 10M openshove, maybe even openshove with sth up to 15? looking at my opponents stacks and threating them like in an STT, just that im now not looking for BB but for M?

im not looking to get super-serious with mtt, so i just need a simple guideline for converting stt-icm into mtt-zone

[matill]

Step 2, Top 2 get Step 3 tickets. Do I push here or wait for a better time?

No-Limit Hold'em Tournament, 150/300 Blinds (3 handed) - Hold'em Manager Hand Converter from HandHistoryConverter.com

Hero (SB) (t1555)
BB (t3975) 16/9
Button (t7970)

Hero's M: 3.46

Preflop: Hero is SB with Q, 7
1 fold

[mckrogh]

^^You gotta push.

[ChrissLV]

What is good ROI for 6.5$ turbo SnG in FTP?

[mckrogh]

Originally Posted by ChrissLV

What is good ROI for 6.5$ turbo SnG in FTP?

Taken from the FAQ:

Stars 9 Man Turbo
$3.40s - 14%
$6s - 11%
$16s - 8%
$27s - 6%
$38s - 5%
$60s - 4%
$114s - 3%
$225s - 2%
$335s+ - 1%

[kcim]

Can anyone recommend some good blogs from sitngo pros?

[alexd11]

Not just a good blog but easily the best blog on the net http://ragztoriches09.blogspot.com/

SpaceGravy's got a new site which is encouraging players to blog on it, there's already a couple of posts from various good players so it might be worth keeping an eye on
http://www.spacegravypoker.com/index...blog&Itemid=50

Simplicity8 has a very good blog http://simplicity318.blogspot.com/ as do a lot of players really, chances are if you google their screen name you'll bump into a blog.

[matill]

Originally Posted by mckrogh

^^You gotta push.

Great thanks.

[NCFCRulz]

Originally Posted by MUFC LUHG

As Rusemandingo (super turbo hero grinder) is ITT.

I'm planning on a big grind in the $5.30 9 man Super turbos on FTP this week.

What is a conservative amount of buy-ins required for these? I want to cash-out my Rakeback weekly and leave myself room to play and handle a down swing.

I currently have just over 700 buy-ins. I've not played a high volume of these so don't know my ROI.

I'm was around 7%ROI in the 6.50 9man Turbos and a crappy 2.5% ROI in the turbo $12's over a decent sample. So I'm of the conservative approach I can hopefully get at least a 3% ROI in the super turbos.

Any advice is appreciated.

Cheers

Grinding the $1.10's atm. Running at 43% ROI over miniscule sample of 86 tournies. Did you grind these out to begin with? What ROI did you achieve over 1,000 games? I think 15% is sustainable?

[alexd11]

Originally Posted by NCFCRulz

Grinding the $1.10's atm. Running at 43% ROI over miniscule sample of 86 tournies. Did you grind these out to begin with? What ROI did you achieve over 1,000 games? I think 15% is sustainable?

I had a look for you and the best player at the 2's has an ROI of 12% over a somewhat small 4kish sample.

I couldn't find too many at the 1's but there were two guys running at around 9% and 7%, the guy at 9% was over a 14k sample. So that might give you some idea what's possible.

[epix-]

can someone please take a look at my mtt m zone post earlier?

would post it in an beginner mtt thread, but couldnt find one in their forums ^^


ncfcrulz: the super turbo games (at least at fulltilt) offer a better rake structure, the higher you play them. its save to assume that most players who beat the 1s quickly climb up to pay lesser rakes.

1+0.1 2+0.15 5+0.3 10+0.5 20+0.9 and so on

[TruFloridaGator]

Originally Posted by shiddy_chicken

SitNGo Wiz says shove... Am I wrong for wanting to fold this? $6 9 Man


Poker Stars No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t300.00/t600.00 Blinds - 4 players
2+2 Hand Converter Powered By DeucesCracked

BB: t1265.00 2.11 BBs
CO: t4795.00 7.99 BBs
BTN: t5170.00 8.62 BBs
Hero (SB): t2270.00 3.78 BBs

Pre Flop: (t900) Hero is SB with K Q
1 fold, BTN raises to t5120, 1 fold, BB calls t665 all in

Flop: (t2830) 8 3 4 (2 players - 1 is all in)

Turn: (t2830) 2 (2 players - 1 is all in)

River: (t2830) 5 (2 players - 1 is all in)

You must have some weird ranges in Wiz inputted. I have:
BTN shoves 90
BB calls 15

Remember, this is only the BB's calling range IF we shove on top which makes it severely -EV. BB may not even call that wide when he sees us risk our stack. When BB is all in, then it's easy call if BTN is shoving wide.

[Trex8063]

Just a general curiosity for anyone who's been playing in the these at least 6-8 months:

Are STT's (maybe NL tourneys in general) getting tighter?

I used to play NL MTT's/sng's and STT's exclusively (generally $6 + $0.50 or less). But I've been away for 6-7 months, having detoured into FLHE FR cash games, occ FL HORSE sng, and very rare Razz cash game.

Tilting a little after a recent downswing, I decided to play some $1 +$0.10/$1 + $0.20 NLHE sng's (mostly STT's) to boost my confidence. So far I've found the games much tighter than they used to be: often times 40-50 hands in before it's even down to 7 players; used to be that 3-4 players would have eliminated themselves within the first 20-25 hands. Also actually saw it fold all the way around to the BB pf a few times; that too never used to happen.

Is this a trend or just a fluke?
(I'm on FTP, btw).

[NCFCRulz]

Originally Posted by epix-

can someone please take a look at my mtt m zone post earlier?

would post it in an beginner mtt thread, but couldnt find one in their forums ^^


ncfcrulz: the super turbo games (at least at fulltilt) offer a better rake structure, the higher you play them. its save to assume that most players who beat the 1s quickly climb up to pay lesser rakes.

1+0.1 2+0.15 5+0.3 10+0.5 20+0.9 and so on

Yeah started off with 50BI's at 1.10 (can redeposit but wont be necessary), and plan to add an extra 50BI's for each level, so 100BI's at 2's, 150BI's at 5's etc etc.

No point staying at a lower level to try and prove you are a winning player in the ST's. I would argue with the swings POTENTIALLY a good winning player could work through the 1.10 up to the 10.50 in 2,000 tournies or less with some run good!