mtt stands for multi-table tournament
- Any question related to multi-table tournaments
- poker strategy for tournaments
- rules specific to tournaments
- etiquette while playing tournaments
Questions tagged [mtt]
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MTT - flush draw vs loose big'o'stack
So i am in the money on a 0.10$+0.01$ MTT with M=5 and playing tightly waiting for a decent hand to shove. I'm UTG in this hand. I had a recent, won shove and decided to just call A⋄T⋄ since the game was passive enough and planning…
user1165
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Learning modern MTT basics in limited time
I am a winning low-stakes live cash game pro with mediocre abilities. I have qualified for a day 2 of a big live tournament, with a well above-average stack. Day 2 starts in 5 days. (There is a TL;DR at the end.)
Many years ago, I had significant…
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Final table shuffle in MTT
Last night I was playing in a MTT at the local casino and when the tournament was down to the final table, the players were shuffled. The floor managers gave us cards to pick with the position number.
Is this a regular practice in non-online MTTs?
I…
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How to adjust Gameplay at a PokerLeague?
Every Weekend I take part at a little Poker league , that has 15MTTs and the result of the best 10 count towards the leaderboard ,
There is no prize for a single MTT so you only play fore Points ... all prizes go to the leaderboard .
There are…
ElBiasto
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How can I improve my MTT end game?
I play often at my local casino in Bristol, England and I constantly seem to find myself with around or over double the average stack when the tournament reaches under 30 players. With that said, I always seem to struggle to get to the final tables.…
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Late live MTT: critique the play
Tourney background: it is a $65 buy-in at a local Midwestern state casino. Roughly 55 total entrants. Tournament is paying top 6 with 13 players remaining.
7 players at table blinds are 1k and 2k Hero has a stack of roughly 20k (middlish for…
Chris
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A free online room with long/no time controls
Me and my friends want to play some Sit-n-goes or tournaments with play money (not real money). We want to create private rooms, without people from the outside. The best option would bee MTTs with rebuys.
We played on the “World poker Club”…
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Should fold AKo when 2 players already all-in?
8-handed MTT, no bubble factor yet, avg stack ~17bb:
UTG ALL in ~20BB, TAG
MP ALL IN 30BB, so called pro
fold to HERO Big Blind AKo with 20BB?
What if Hero only 10BBs leave and get around 40BBs?
Atk
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How to deal with card dead in MTT?
I went to play a low buy in, turbo (15 min per level), big blind ante MTT like a week ago. And I feel frustrated on the game. on the first 6 level, I did not open any hand, and I have no idea what else could do beside folding (I had try to defense…
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EV+ plays in no-rebuy MTTs
Whenever I read about taking good decisions when playing poker, the concept of EV+ plays is explained. In simple words I understand it as: it doesn't really matter if you actually win or loose a hand as long as it is profitable in the long run. I…
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Tacit intra-table fraternity in MTTs
Is there such a thing as playing nice by implicit agreement among the players of the same table in a MTT? That is, few raises or no re-raises, absolutely no all-ins, no BB stealing from weak players, and so on.
The idea is to stick together and…
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Can someone help me out with the table balancing done in MTT's?
Gone through the Pokerstars table balancing article:
https://www.pokerstars.com/help/articles/trn-table-balancing/10626/
I am considering two major factors while developing my own online poker table balancing algorithm:
The number of times a player…
puneet2289
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When should I move up from Freeroll MTT's?
Theoretically, if I have been playing Free rollers for a month, and played in 250 of them, winning 3 and coming into the money in 50, how many more should I play before I move up to the next stake level.
Travis
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Out of turn action
UTG is thinking.
UTG +1 raises out of turn for 5BBs. He apologies and takes his money back.
UTG, doesn't see that, UTG +1 had raised and he raises to 2.5BBs.
Questions:
1) Does UTG +1 can just call 2.5BBs, or does he have to put 5BBs. What are the…
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ROI in multi-table tournamments
I have in the past played HU microstakes with some degree of success. I've experienced the advantage of being able to put in a huge volume, but I'm also a bit tired of the high rake/low edge of these games. I would like now to shift my attention…
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