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Guys is it a good idea to top up during tournament?

£5 buy in starting 4k chips, unlimited rebuy til now, 11 players left, total pot about £80 before top up, i have 8k chips. £5 for 3k or £10 for 6k. Everyone seems to be toppin up.. i will probably be 5/11 if i donti DONT, 3/11 if i do as most of the chips are with 2 people.
 
I wouldnt. 5/11 isn't a bad place to be considering they've paid more than you effectively. People will tend to tighten up after adding on though, more investment and more chips to protect.
 
I mainly use Pokerstars, though I do also have an account with Everest Poker. I've only just started playing for cash, and have simply deposited the minimum amount, which I expect I'll lose all of. Atm I just want to get a feel of what its like in comparison with the freerolls that I've been entering since the spring.

I'll just add, I was Absolute Poker, but unfortunately and I hope temporarily, the freerolls seem to have been discontinued. I used to regularly enter these and did quite well and was encouraged by the consistency of my results. However, going from those where you might get at the most two to three hundred players, to now on Pokerstars where the minimum is in the thousands, all I can say is that it's a whole new ball game!
 
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happy_2008 said:
I tend to play ladbrokes but when i played the small tournaments everyone kept going all in. Totally ruined the gameplay :(
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You may already know this, but look at your position at the table. If you're in early position then hands like AA, KK, QQ, JJ or high unsuited ones such as AJ, KJ etc are good (though fold the latter under heavy raises). Mediocre or lower end hands, suited or not, I would quite often just forget. One of the things I used to do was be far too tight regardless of position, a tight and passive player was my style. This is great but only up to a point, and once I started betting and raising in suitable situations it certainly gave me more confidence. Mind you, the other night, AA and all in, and some dude flopped trips...well that's poker. :D
 
I had £20 left in Paddypower so i played a few sit&go tournies tonight, started with a $20 6-seater and came 2nd, then went on to a $50 6 seater and won 2 in a row, i ended up winning/placing in quite a few and withdrew £200 in the end, leaving £20 in(which i then lost in a few minutes in a cash game on a really bad beat).

I might play a few tournaments over the next few days actually, i generally do very well in tournaments and could probably be quite steady, but i don't find much time to play big tournaments sadly.
 
Just started a £5 bounty tournament and in 5 minutes took 2 players out with Aces and AK, so have made my stake back already:D

Gonna play quite a bit tonight i think as i don't have work tonight like i usually do.
 
Going well in a tournament atm, 12 players left but there were only 50-odd to start with, first place is only £180. I am chip leader by a mile. But only because I have just called 2 of the worst bluffs i have ever seen, i couldn't believe it, i was fairly sure i had won but not that they had such terrible hands!

I had AQ, A flop of A78 with 2000 already in the pot, he checks and i bet 800 and he goes all-in for 7000! I thought about it and called and he had QJ!
 
Well i won!

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Happy with my performance actually, i bossed the final table when i needed to, stayed out of the action when required. We started heads-up with almost exactly the same amount of chips strangely!
Usually i am not aggressive enough for HU play and usually let myself get bullied but i spiced it up a bit and really went for it and was never in any danger, in fact i don't think i was at risk at any point in the tournament!

I am going to try to play more aggressively in future
 
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Playing a few tournaments atm, just made what some might consider a bad fold, what do you think?

This was in the first 10 minutes of the tournament, everyone had 4000.

I had QQ, raised to 3 bb's, got 3 calls, the flop comes J56, first guy bets a bit then is raised all-in by the next one and called by the other, so i have 2-all-ins, i decided to fold, then the original raiser calls all-in. So i would have been all-in against 3 other hands. As the hand played out, 2 of them had AJ and the other had KJ, so i would have won and be sitting with 16000 after 10 minutes!

Wrong move? It was so early in the tournament, it is nice to get a big chip stack but no point risking everything in a 4-way hand really?
The reason i do slightly regret it is that it is a rebuy and i do have enough for one rebuy.
 
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