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Old Oct 02,2006, 07:38 AM   #1
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Looking for advice on LIMIT holdem tournaments

Hi all

I will be playing a live limit tourney in two weeks and would like to hear from everyone their thoughts on strategies.

The buy-in is 300 but I don't know the exact blind structure for the tourney.

How tight should I play? When does bluffing become an effective tool?

Stuff like that


Thanks for any insights you may have

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Old Oct 02,2006, 08:26 AM   #2
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Re: Looking for advice on LIMIT holdem tournaments

Bluffing usually doesn't work so great in limit games. For the cost of one more bet, most players will calculate it out and make the call. I wouldn't bluff very often, and when I did, it would be against one or two players, and the board comes up something ugly like 5 4 7, and you represent the straight.

Just remember, most limit players will see it RIGHT the end with garbage, hoping to catch. Wait for good hands and then pop it up as fast as you can.
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Old Oct 04,2006, 11:59 AM   #3
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Re: Looking for advice on LIMIT holdem tournaments

In the low limits people like to see the flops for cheap so get ready for multiway action. One pair doesn't usually play well early on..most people are playing draws.

In the WSOP this year when I played the limit event I pretty much played position and jammed the pot when I had the best hand, and hope that it holds up. Which eventually led me to get busted out when I flopped 2 pair and got rivered by a higher two pair.

After about 3 levels position comes to play a key in this game also chip stack. You will find people starting to call to the river or starting to raise with A-rag...so be aware and try not to get involved in too many multiway pots early on. Devo has some great posts in the WSOP section about the limit tourney strategy which helped me a lot this year at the WSOP
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Re: Looking for advice on LIMIT holdem tournaments

1/ avoid (my personal viewpoint...)
2/ use position to steal
3/ don't feel compelled to defend your bb with crap all the time
4/ implied odds mean a lot more in nl. not so much in limit
5/ treat your chips like gold. once they are gone it takes a while to get them back.
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Old Oct 04,2006, 02:51 PM   #5
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Re: Looking for advice on LIMIT holdem tournaments

(from playing limit MTTs and sit-n-gos online)

- don't get creative and check to reraise. You miss bets and give free cards this way.
- pay more attention to offered odds vs. implied odds.
- bluffing doesn't work as well, espc. in multiway pots.

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