jmbreslin

For those of you who play Rush at the 10NL level (or something similar), just wondering how you've adjusted your game from "regular" poker to Rush. With little information to go on, do you just assume all players fit a certain category and play accordingly? Have you made any noticeable changes to your play, e.g., bet/raise sizes, CB frequency, 2nd bullet frequency, 3-bet frequency, etc?Thanks.

Why? Your postflop aggression seems to be working just fine.

Didn't get any uptake on the idea for my report card goals thread in the general forum so I thought I'd just start it here for myself and see if anyone wants to join in.Goals for the 2nd half of Feb:1) Figure out how to make money at 10NL Rush. With no reads on opponents I feel like I never know where I stand and I've had several losing sessions in a row. I'm starting to experiment with 4BB standard raises rather than 3BB since people seem to call 3BB pretty widely (especially defending their blinds). Also trying to reduce the frequency of getting deep into pots in marginal spots. Tighten up c

Found a 16-page thread on 2+2 about these...

Good discussion. In hindsight I think I agree with the shove preflop. I would rarely open-shove 15BB, but when the dead money in the pot represents 20% of my stack and nobody has shown strength, that's an ideal spot to shove. Avoids difficult decisions postflop, and in micro 45-turbos you will get called by hands like A8, small-med pairs, and QJ.As to the question about danger zone, I'm usually looking to open-shove once I get down to about 10BB. I will sometimes open-shove slightly larger stacks (e.g., 2200 stack at 100/200) if the effective stacks to act after me are all smaller than min

Just prior to the FT of a micro 45-man turbo, 11 or 12 left at this point (top 7 pay).PokerStars No-Limit Hold'em, 1.1 Tournament, 500/1000 Blinds 125 Ante (5 handed) - Poker-Stars Converter Tool from FlopTurnRiver.comUTG (t20639)MP (t7223)Button (t16684)SB (t12904)Hero (BB) (t15525)Hero's M: 7.31Preflop: Hero is BB with 10, 102 folds, Button calls t1000, SB calls t500, Hero bets t3000, Button calls t2000, SB calls t2000Flop: (t9625) 5, 5, 7(3 players)SB checks, Hero bets t4000, Button calls t4000, 1 foldTurn: (t17625) 4(2 players)Hero checks, Button bets t4000, Hero ???I realize now my PF rai

There was an article in the recent Full Tilt email magazine where the author was advocating cashing out in small increments throughout the tourney, as long as he can maintain a healthy stack (and preferably be one of the biggest at the table). He also gave an example of tripling through early, at which point you could cash out your entire tourney fee and start again with a starting stack for free.I can see why it would be stupid for someone who makes a living playing poker but it still sounds like it might be worthwhile for casual amateurs, no?

Did a search and didn't see anything so forgive me if I missed an earlier thread on the topic.I just noticed these new "Cashout" tournies offered on Tilt and I'm wondering if anyone has played them (and if so, whether you like them...and if so, how you alter your regular tourney strategy...).They seem ideal for someone like me: a recreational player who doesn't rely as much on the big cash as a professional/full-time player, and someone who doesn't usually have 5-7 hours of uninterrupted time to play a tourney to the end. The cashout tournies would enable me to get some MTT experience without

The monthly goals threads seem to have died off but many of us still like to set regular goals for ourselves. I have a different idea for a goals thread. Instead of posting results-oriented goals, like "play 200 STTs with an ROI>5%" or play "10,000 hands of 25NL and profit," the idea for this thread is to focus more on what we need to do to improve our play and to grade ourselves on how well we achieved those objectives.For example, suppose I set the following monthly goals for myself:1) Increase my number of deep finishes in 45-turbo SnGs by focusing more on late-stage aggression2) Impro

If you could nut-peddle 5000 tables at a time, you'd really increase your odds of taking down a milestone hand prize...

I'm learning not to drive marginal hands because there are so many calling stations in this game. I'm not seeing as much nittiness as I did at the beginning. Sure, I can steal a decent number of small pots with raises and if necessary CBs, but there is also a lot of blind defense going on. The game is very passive, however. Most players like to just call down so you can't push them off hands.In short, drive big hands for value but avoid creating big pots in marginal spots. I have to keep remembering that my image is almost entirely irrelevant in Rush so I don't need to worry about balanci

Could easily be a standard CB after a Button steal, I think check-folding is too weak here. Sure he could have JJ-AA, or A9, but he's more likely to be holding lots of other Aces, pairs like 66/77, overcard combos, etc. You could go for a check-raise and likely take it down right here, or call and check the turn to catch him firing a 2nd bullet with his missed overcards.

Sorry, I didn't mean an overpair vs TPTK on the same board. I meant that if it is usually bad to go broke with AQ on a Q86 board, isn't it just as bad to go broke with JJ on a 775 board?

Your analysis seems to suggest we're ahead, but then your second paragraph indicates that we're usually beaten in this spot.I agree we can probably discount the underfull, and probably AA/KK, but that's about it. This could be QQ, 99, 7x on the bad side, or TT, 88, maybe 66 on the good side. I really don't see much else in his range. The idea of playing a hand like 7x this way is interesting. He's not sure I'll CB in a 3-way pot, and his hand is disguised, so he pots it to see what I do. When I call he knows I likely have a hand with value (as opposed to something like missed AK/AQ), so h

Please explain.

The combination of fold equity when you shove and the fact that you might have 15 live outs makes shoving the flop the best play in this type of situation. That said, I would have raised bigger PF so the flop shove isn't such a ridiculous overbet.As played I simply make a larger flop bet, like close to pot, to increase the chances that I can get it all in on the flop. In this spot you want to avoid getting called and having to face an awkward decision on the turn.

I found myself thinking, "If going broke with TPTK is bad, isn't going broke with a JJ overpair even worse?"

A lot of shit is possible here, which is why I was so baffled. He should raise better than JJ, and shouldn't play a big flopped hand so fast, but perhaps that's exactly what he wants me to think. It would be unusual to see a player at this level play a hand this hard that I beat. A much more common pattern with a smaller pair would be a smallish donk, followed by a turn check, and then sometimes a bet on the river if I check behind on the turn.

I also raise the AKs hand a bit bigger PF with two limpers already in. You've basically made a slightly-bigger-than-minraise. As played bet larger on the flop. You wouldn't mind taking it down right there but if you're going to continue the hand you'd like to increase the probability that you'll be able to get it in on the flop. The smaller flop bet gives you the more awkward decision when you whiff on the turn.

Rush Poker hand.Full Tilt No-Limit Hold'em, $0.10 BB (9 handed) - Full-Tilt Converter Tool from FlopTurnRiver.comSB ($26.44)BB ($15.74)UTG ($11.58)UTG+1 ($16.45)MP1 ($16.34)MP2 ($16.80)Hero (MP3) ($10.05)CO ($9.09)Button ($17.20)Preflop: Hero is MP3 with J, J2 folds, MP1 calls $0.10, 1 fold, Hero bets $0.40, 1 fold, Button calls $0.40, 2 folds, MP1 calls $0.30Flop: ($1.35) 7, 7, 5(3 players)MP1 bets $1.35, Hero calls $1.35, 1 foldTurn: ($4.05) 9(2 players)MP1 bets $4.05, Hero thinks WTF??? and...

That's what I did. Thought about it and folded, ended up working my way to a 3rd place finish. I'm really working on trying to improve my deep finishes in these.I actually find the early stages of the final table the most challenging parts of these tourneys. By that point everyone at the table is short so there is lots of shoving, which makes it very difficult to find open-shoving spots. After moving from shorthanded play to the full table, you also find yourself in more marginal shortstack spots, like getting dealt KQo in early position. Lots of tough decisions at the beginning of the fi

I'm Button, so I'm blind free for a while. And will be in prime stealing position for a couple more hands.

PokerStars No-Limit Hold'em, 1.1 Tournament, 600/1200 Blinds 75 Ante (9 handed) - Poker-Stars Converter Tool from FlopTurnRiver.comHero (Button) (t5825)SB (t10005)BB (t3930)UTG (t4305)UTG+1 (t3935)MP1 (t6895)MP2 (t9365)MP3 (t15095)CO (t8145)Hero's M: 2.35Preflop: Hero is Button with A, 64 folds, MP3 bets t3600, 1 fold, Hero???MP3 had been a pretty aggressive bigstack since we started the FT together so I suspected his range was reasonably wide, but is this too marginal to push here?

It drives me nuts when players who play like idiots and get really lucky start spouting off like they're experts. But my absolute biggest chat pet peeve is when players say "thank you" after someone doubles them up. As though the other player was doing something nice by giving him their chips. Even when I'm not the recipient I have to sit on my hands to stop from typing, "Take the chips and shut the **** up!"

When I was playing the super turbos I had a couple of players ask to chop once we got HU and were close in chips. I thought they were joking but they weren't. The idea of chopping what remained of a $9 prize pool seemed a bit silly to me.