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Playing in a big tourney last night. Started with 20k and chips. BB ante that started at 50/100. I didnt get a playable hand for 4 hours. Blinded off half my stack. In the last level (20mins) I went from a 20k stack to a 140k stack.
Pretty similar. 5-6 hour tournament play last weekend (20 min levels, 20k starting stack, started at 50/100). Pretty card dead the whole time. AA once, JJ once (lost those), I think the next best was 33 which I used to call down a 3 barrel bluff from a total LAG.
No AK, AQ or AJ in sight. No suited connectors or even on-gappers in sight. The most premium made hand was trips which I hit once on the flop...
...and still managed to stay about 1.5-2 time average stacks until the bubble. The table was just that good for most of the time.
(Busted out mincash. My own fault for playing a hand I shouldn't have)
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True but, if you don't ever move, no one will call your moves with the good hands.
If you don't move for a while you can bluff like hell for a while. One guy actually said to my face "I'm not gonna call that with
your range"...showing JJ before mucking on an unthreatening A-high board after a double barrel bluff with 52s (my favorite hand)