What do you do when you don't know how to play

i usually shove when things get uncomfortable

I stay away from tournaments.

in tourneys, in spots like that...unless im very sure im ahead, or there is just soooo much dead money in the pot and i have great EV, i'd just fold.

think about it...bust at that moment, its a big waste of time. wait one or two more hands to get into the money, its all profit....

thats why the money bubble is so fun to play. some people turn into the biggest nits on the planet (if you ever watch WSOP you see people folding KK face up...lol) and then you see people open up a bit and try to abuse the nits.

my advice would be to just stay solid, wait till you are in the money, and then run over them

On May 12 2011 18:45 chris wrote: in tourneys, in spots like that...unless im very sure im ahead, or there is just soooo much dead money in the pot and i have great EV, i'd just fold. think about it...bust at that moment, its a big waste of time. wait one or two more hands to get into the money, its all profit.... thats why the money bubble is so fun to play. some people turn into the biggest nits on the planet (if you ever watch WSOP you see people folding KK face up...lol) and then you see people open up a bit and try to abuse the nits. my advice would be to just stay solid, wait till you are in the money, and then run over them

12 dead bbs in a 80bb pot :|
if all four people folded and the 3rd player also wasn't lagtarded it would be
15 dead bbs in a 60bb pot :|

I know if this was a cash game this would be completely fine, but I mean it's a fucking tournament. And I knew it was a tournament so I had two conflicting sides of me driving me fucking nuts.


Ahwellz it's just about a few hundred dollars of mistake. It's not like like I lost the WSOP.

I close my eyes and randomly click buttons

I'm not a tournament expert but here's my take:

1) Bubble play allows you to be aggro and pick up chips from the weaker players that are worried about busting out. I'm not sure, but I think it's correct to fold AA on the bubble in a NLHE tourney for all your chips(someone correct me if I'm wrong please). In a PLO tourney, I'm pretty sure you should be folding every hand if it puts you Allin or close to it on the bubble.

2) Just because one opponent turned up the same hand doesn't mean it was necessarily a bad play. It was probably a great call in a vacuum.

On May 13 2011 12:28 goose58 wrote: I'm not a tournament expert but here's my take: 1) Bubble play allows you to be aggro and pick up chips from the weaker players that are worried about busting out. I'm not sure, but I think it's correct to fold AA on the bubble in a NLHE tourney for all your chips(someone correct me if I'm wrong please). In a PLO tourney, I'm pretty sure you should be folding every hand if it puts you Allin or close to it on the bubble. 2) Just because one opponent turned up the same hand doesn't mean it was necessarily a bad play. It was probably a great call in a vacuum.

fuck the bubble. If you're not first, you're last.