live nlhe tournament stradegy. has anyone tried this

[Sindri 0]

I'm playing a NLHE Trny this weekend where I've never played before and I have heard there are a ton of "Gus Hansens" and "Danials" who bust out in the first hour. They all think they are great but are average. My idea is this:Wear sunglasses and look like a poser trying to look like a player. During the first couple of hands act like a bufoon. For example, when I'm first to act fold instead of check or if I bet, bet the small blind amount. A few hands later, raise but raise the wrong amount. All the while talk about watching the WPT and Celebrity Poker.My goal is this: Any top player will ignore it and play his correct game. I will bee able to ID him in the first 10 hands or so. The real bufoons won't know the difference but may discount me. The Gus Hansens will figure me for dead money and ignore me when I'm in a pot or make half assed moves that will let me clean them out. I am somewhat conservative anyway and I like getting the aggressive players really gunning for me since I have been able to use it against them.I can do well playing my normal game I'm just curious how many people have tried this. Using someones ego against them is one of my favorite things to do and I think this might make that even easier.Thoughts? :roll: :twisted:

[21gambit 0]

You will make yourself a target, and its hard to play when everyone has you pegged as the sucker. If this were a cash game where you can buy back in I like the idea of everyone taking their shots at you, but in a tourney where you have a finite number of chips, you dont want the whole table trying to run you down.I am the MASTER of run on sentences

[21gambit 0]

willy 300 posts make me a veteran?

[21gambit 0]

dammit,,oh, it was 301

[mjd 0]

There are so many terrible players out there right now that I don't know why you'd bother with this strategy. Unless you're bored or something, just go and play solid tourney poker.

[RISEorFall 0]

The "Gus Hansens" and whatnot will make half assed moves anyway, that's why they bust out in the first hour. If you want to show them something, try to make a tough laydown in the first few hands and show it to everybody. They might try to bluff at you more, but you better know when they're bluffing. And that's just getting chips from players who'd give them to you anyway, any better player would just ignore you, or could very well use that against you at opportune times. I say just go play poker. Go after the better players while they're going after the goons. THey're likely to be going after the bad players with sub par hands at times. If they are, take advantage of that. Don't play the maniac, play the maniac's opponent.

[BuzzWorthy 0]

You're probably going to have to show down a bad hand early to get them to believe you. I consider that 'investing' in your table image. I did that once at Bellagio no-limit cash game, and after they saw me bet heavily with a J10 with only the 10 on board (got beat by A10), I got all kinds of calls - of course from that point on, I held excellent hands and easily recovered my initial 'investment' and in fact doubled my buy-in. The situation has to be right, though. Good players will likely not fall for this.Truth be told, though... I believe a better strategy is to just play a solid game. Especialy in tournaments, where once you have built a table image, you get moved.

[Erudis 0]

well... are you planning to do that at every table you get moved to? if so, seems like a losing investment, especially if the cards dry up and you don't have the hands to trap the people you've set up.just play good.