Stars $4 180man tourney's

[bizaldy]

By far the easiest MTT to beat on the net.....I recomend these for people trying to build a bankroll or just looking for an easy MTT or sng whatever you want to label it....I have played in 20 and have Final Tabled 8 of them...1st-2 2nd-2 4th-1 5th-1 8th-2.....come join the madness....

[fishdawg65]

I haven't played any big mtts like this before but I played these and got 40th, 57th, and 13th. The only thing is that they take so long and don't pay off unless you make the top 5.

Although, 1 first place finish can buy you ~500 chances at winning again. I'll keep on playing and hopefully take a couple of these down before the end of the week.

Any suggestions for late rounds? I consistently find myself in the mid to top stacks at the beginning and then later find myself in the mid to bottom stacks when getting closer to 50. Perhaps I'm not stealing enough blinds.

[bizaldy]

My strategy for these goes like this.......early on raise big with big hands as they will get paid off.....limp in with pkt pair and if you hit set ur sure to double up off a donk....


Middle Tourney......keep tight table image and play position.....use position to ur advantage


bubble time.....open up and become LAG as they are scared to bubble out and not make the money....stealing of blinds is key....build your stack while others watch

Final Two tables......people will have you tagged as LAG by watching ur bubble play that you will get paid off on your big hands...play a TAG style and you will do fine....pick up blinds and dont blind off

Final Table.....pick your spots and choose carefully what stacks you go up against unless of course you have big hand...dont get involved in pots with mediocre hands with bigger stack as he has stack that can eliminate you...play TAG till down to 5 players then open up the LAG style and take over the table if you have right chip stack...if your low then push an pray mode till you get right stack to run over the table...

Gl and hope to see you at final table soon...

[fishdawg65]

My best chance was my last attempt at taking it. I was around mid stack but I was getting low pocket pairs in late position and I'd call for cheap looking for set value but would mis every time. I think the mix of low pockets missing and antes were making things difficult. I also had trouble stealing when I was up against some aggressive people.

[bizaldy]

If there were no raises in front of you or calls in LP with pkt pairs make sure you raise it up....dont limp in LP with pkt pairs...raise it up and try and take the blinds right there....if they call then play accordingly depending on what the flop brings...

[fishdawg65]

I'm almost getting pissed that I can't seal the deal with these mtts. I was clearly in the running toward the end and then my AQo gets donked off by ato.

I'd like to get closer to the pot than 13th or 15th.

[maharaja]

I keep busting on the bubble in these. I've busted 19th, 23rd, and 25th. Worst part is I'm not sure what's wrong with my game. When I busted 19th I was in 4th place overall and trying to play bubble poker (i.e. over aggressive). I had A10o, raised 4x BB and flopped two pair. Raised back and forth with BB w/AK putting him all in. And of course he rivers the K...

The other times I've busted with pockets pairs (JJs and QQs).

[bigdil511]

These tourny's IMO are superweak, the payout sucks, it takes fucking forever, just not worth the effort. I'd rather play one of the $2+.20 with 1000 people in it, and get ITM in less than 2 hours, quite easy to cash in these as well.

[mewsiclovr]

It that still Pokerstars BigD? Unless I'm looking at the wrong tourney, the payout is pretty low until you get into the top 10 - I'm not sure how it's worth the effort to win a few cents after two hours if you bust barely ITM.

I guess if you're almost guaranteed to place every time it would be worth it, but I'm also thinking of all the suckouts you're bound to endure, so you couldn't place every time. Someone set me straight - I don't have a lot of experience with MTT's yet but would like to start giving them a shot.

[labatsman]

I am a little confused...Isn't a 180 man tourney going to move a little faster than a 2000 man tourney?

[bigdil511]

I am a little confused...Isn't a 180 man tourney going to move a little faster than a 2000 man tourney?

Logically it would make sense wouldn't it? But no the 2000 $2 buy-in tournys only take about an hour maybe 1+30 to get ITM>

[labatsman]

I'm testing your thoughts in a 2.00 MTT at stars Dil... and you're right. I'm on 2 hour break and ITM. It moves very fast...ITM in about 1 hour and 45 mins
Currently 135th and guaranteed at least a whopping$3.17.. they pay top 180 something

[labatsman]

57th stupid play by me won a big $5.88