03- 2-04, LearnTexasHoldem:

Local Tourney Strategy...

Question:I am a frequent visitor to your site and it has helped me a lot. I have been playing low-limit, both play money and real money tournaments with an occasional play in $.02/.04 games. Farily new at this but holding my own. The question I have is that I have entered a local tournament, never played no-limit before and would like to know how you would approach this game:

Top 3 Beginner Rooms

only 10 players, pays 3 places

cost of entry= $10 for $50 in chips

3 rebuys during first 2 rounds $10/$50

double rebuy end of 2nd round= $10/$100

round 1=sm blind-5, big blind-10, min bet-10

round 2=sm blind-10,big blind-20, min bet 20

each round lasts 45 minutes rounds 3, 4, 5, 20 minutes each

3= 25-50-50

4= 50-100-100

5=100-200-200

Thank you for any advice you might offer,

Bob H

Answer: I would probably go in swinging since there are only 10 players. That sounds like a good place to open up a bit and have some fun. If everyone is playing tight trying to last to the next rounds then push more hands against them. Don't lose all your chips but make more moves against them if you have position.

Now if the opposite is true in that everyone is there to just have fun and they are betting very aggressively, then tone your play back quite a bit and just wait for good starting hands. I would also make use of the double rebuy. Another way you could go about it is just plan on making use of a rebuy and the double rebuy and use the initial buyin to just play crazy and aggressive and scare everyone.

Your table image will remain like that the rest of the game even after you start playing solid poker again. Most likely they won't notice that you switched gears and you'll have a better chance of getting paid off on your good hands. It only takes one tremendous bluff getting caught for people to give you no respect the rest of the game -- a 10 payer tourney is a perfect situation to use that.

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