UK Poker Championship - £560 ME
Hi Guys.
I've sattied into this tomorrow.
100k starting stack.
Day1 A Starts at 12pm with a 7 hour late registration. Blind levels are 40 minutes starting at 200/500 with a 500 bb ante.
There are 15 levels.
By level 15, the blinds will be 6000/12000 with a 12000 bb ante.
This is slightly bigger than the last live main event tournament I played which was the £500 Party Poker Live in Glasgow. My experience from that was that the first 3 or 4 hours were pretty boring, with very little happening and just small pots being won.
That said, given this structure, would anyone have any tips and would anyone advocate sitting down later than the 12pm start and if so, when?
I'm not going to lie, I play better off a 30 to 50bb stack than I do deepstacked.
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Hi Guys.I've sattied into this tomorrow.100k starting stack.Day1 A Starts at 12pm with a 7 hour late registration. Blind levels are 40 minutes starting at 200/500 with a 500 bb ante.There are 15 levels.By level 15, the blinds will be 6000/12000 with a 12000 bb ante.This is slightly bigger than the last live main event tournament I played which was the £500 Party Poker Live in G
I’m a micro stakes donk and I hated being depstacked too. Now I can easily triple/quadriple my starting stack in all tournaments I play, without a single flip with full stack. I either check call after flatting pre and hitting ANYTHING otf or cbet as an OR IP until check-raised (unless hitting something on the way). Yes, field in 560 quid mtt will be much tougher but don’t even consider joining late. What if you get AA or KK couple times on the way and your opponent will be willing to give you his stack? 30-50 bb means you can be out in 1-2 flips .You got your chance via sat, don’t waste it.
When the alternative is having to spend time in Nottingham, I'm sat down and ready to go at 11:55....
When the alternative is having to spend time in Nottingham, I'm sat down and ready to go at 11:55....
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Hi Guys.I've sattied into this tomorrow.100k starting stack.Day1 A Starts at 12pm with a 7 hour late registration. Blind levels are 40 minutes starting at 200/500 with a 500 bb ante.There are 15 levels.By level 15, the blinds will be 6000/12000 with a 12000 bb ante.This is slightly bigger than the last live main event tournament I played which was the £500 Party Poker Live in G
If you're a tournament specialist who is better at the shorter-stacked game then it seems reasonable to wait a few hours to enter. I do this all the time.
Just make sure they aren't going to be blinding you off. Some places put satellite winners' stacks in play right away regardless of when they show up.
I’ll concede and give my credits to GWF here then. Me myself Id come at noon regardless, I guess it’s in reverse to ones experience
If you're a tournament specialist who is better at the shorter-stacked game then it seems reasonable to wait a few hours to enter. I do this all the time.
Just make sure they aren't going to be blinding you off. Some places put satellite winners' stacks in play right away regardless of when they show up.
I don't think they will - you have to show up and scan your finger to register and there's multiple Day 1s so I don't think that should be an issue as they've no idea what day I'm showing up for.
The two main questions are:
1)Where do you feel your edge is?
2)Where do you feel your time is best spent?
Looking at 1. For me, I don't feel like I'm a great deep stack player, but in a tournament of this buyin, I feel like I'm better than a lot of the field. So I'd probably register early if I felt like I was well-rested and ready to go on time. And if part of my goal was to spent a day playing a tournament, not just maximize my hourly, then I would register on time.
If I had something important to do, though, or even "I thought my EV playing two hours of cash live was higher than it would be those first two hours of the tournament," maybe I'd do that. (Online at some sites where I think I have an edge I'll still wait until about the 50-60BB mark to register because I think it's easier to get all-in postflop with that edge than at 200BB.)
If I felt like my game was best short-stacked and I didn't feel that good about playing deeper and didn't care if I busted 5 minutes after registering-- or for some reason I had something I preferred to do most of the day but still wanted to play-- I'd max late reg.
So it comes down to where you feel your game is best and how you want to spend your time.
If you’re more comfy with 30–50bb then late reg a bit, just don’t wait too long since blinds/antes add up. Structure’s deep so solid early play works fine too.
Well, I got there for about 1240. What a long day. Managed to squeeze through to Day 2 with 15bbs, so wish me luck!
Well done Percy, good luck on Sunday.
