Anyone willing share a few tips for double or nothing tourneys? I played one for the first time last night and just couldn't get the hang of it. I wasn't sure if I should be playing tight or lose.
I went in thinking most players at the table would be tight and I wanted to take advantage of that and accumulate chips but IMO it turned out to be the opposite! Is that normally the case?
I normally only play $11 - 9 man SNG's so any feedback or tips on DON's would be great!
ive done fairly well these. Place probably about 70-80 percent of the time. Play tight early then if you're needing chips later on, play position agressively with 6-7 left. The whole table will tighten up huge. You can get away with blind steals to keep you afloat for no more than 2.5x-3x the big blind. This should get the job done. If you get reraised you're probably dealing with someone with a huge hand, but for 2.5-3x the blind you should be able to get away from your hand preflop if you need to. If you get called you still have position and would recommend a continuation bet for most boards that doesn't commit you if possible if you miss.
Do you play regular DON's or Turbo DON's... which format do you suggest?
Thanks!
unless you're very impatient, i'd stay away from the turbo. You force yourself into bad situations too quickly with them. The more smaller pots the better. You can get yourself out of bad situations that way or if you have a hand you have to call with by the river you can call and most likely still contend and comeback. Especially in a DON where you gotta just last until 5th. My advice anyways. I'm sure other people have difference views.
if you were very impatient, i'd play the turbos. turbos get to push fold mode very quickly so if you think you are good at that and adapting to this then turbos would be fine, if you like to have more time, be able to play a bit more then maybe non turbos are more your style.
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I went in thinking most players at the table would be tight and I wanted to take advantage of that and accumulate chips but IMO it turned out to be the opposite! Is that normally the case?
I normally only play $11 - 9 man SNG's so any feedback or tips on DON's would be great!
The thing is to play super duper tight in the start phase. Actually you allways play tighter than in a 9 man SNG. There are some exceptions however, mostly when 6 players left, where you should push very wide up against 1 - 2 players with aprox. same stack size.
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you should play tight and definitely not play to lose. tight is right. its not all about accumulating chips, just play tight and try and get it in as a heavy favorite.
also this is a forum post. next time post a question like this in the forums.