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Originally Posted by hojediade
Just one word.
Let's take a hand like QJoff. Seems to be a good starting hand almost seducing but can really turn into bad memories hand very quickly. I will try to play it at beginning of tournaments and will fold it quickly after the first hour.  I will try to play it after ITM if i have enough stack.
The right thing to do for me when playing online poker is folding 75% during first hour, and this will reach almost 95% later on. When around the FT i can play very aggressive and nearly 50%. For SnG i will fold nearly 70% at the beginning and will become more aggressive with blind to grow.
Well, the thing i wanted to say is that you can't feel the bad beat when folded soon.
Keep your stack away from bad moves and look at the risky players losing their chips while you have a drink or rolling a pot (only for me, lol).
I have a chinese quote resuming the idea, make it yours:
"Contemplate the fire on the bank of opposite."
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I disagree with some things in this post.
Generally I observe what's going on at the table, and tend to do the opoosite. During the first hour of the tournament I am likely to play very tight, especially if it is a freeroll, because I want to see the loose players disappearing before I loosen up my own play. So when others are playing loose I am playing tight aggressive, and hopefully I am building a tight image at the table. Blinds are small and there are no antes, so blinds are not particularly worth stealing. If I'm on the button I may semi-bluff, but it all depends on my read of the situation and the other players.
Later on in the tournament I will loosen up, especially when blinds/antes become worth stealing, but again it will usually be when I'm cutoff or button, as position is really important in poker. A lot of people tighten up around the bubble, so if I have a decent stack this is a great time to steal blinds. Again, as people have tightened up I've loosened up, I'm observing the masses and doing the opposite.
Aggression is really important in the later stages of a tournament, and at that point I will be trying to give the impression of being loose. In reality I will probably be seeing the flop with lots of small PPs and suited connectors, so I will be quite loose preflop, but I generally will be folding where I don't hit. Then I will be looking to be paid off big with the monster hands, and people will hopefully be more likely to pay me off, as my table image will be looser by this stage.
The crucial thing throughout this is that I will NOT have any percentage in mind of how many flops I should see. My maths skills will be used to calculate pot odds and EV, but not to calculate what % of flops I am seeing, because that is irrelevant. I don't want to distract myself from playing every hand as well as I possibly can. Some periods I will have loads of playable hands, other times I will have none. You can't play poker by a rigid set of rules, it's all about observing the situation and adapting your play to fit. Let's concentrate on what really matters, good luck peeps!
Incidentally:
- I would rarely be playing QJos, unless I'm heads up or very short-stacked, or maybe the small blind when it has all folded around to me.
- Your Chinese quote doesn't really make sense to me, and I wonder what it actually means. If it is actually "Observe the fire on the opposite bank" then I assume it means watch the people that go all-in with virtually any hand, but don't get your fingers burned by becoming involved yourself.
