Double Or Nothing on Pokerstars

Tom, if I play one I think I will play big hands early and try for the double up....and if I am not getting hands maybe others will get reckless and knock each other out for me I once placed 3rd in a sit n go where I only played one hand!!

I guess I would feel the table out and go from there!! God luck to you if you try them out, let us know!

BAT

Huh, that's pretty interesting. I haven't seen those yet. I don't think I would change my game any just to get in the top five, I think I would continue to go for the win. If the tables playing tight, which sounds like what might happen, i would loosen up. If it's loose, I'd tighten up my game.

Well it seems to me that when u double up your pretty much in. Had that and folded my way to the money.

play very tight. . i played 13% of my hands an made it to the top 5. . i was 4th out of 5,but thats all i needed

This is the 3rd or 4th blog I have saw on this game, so I guess it is time to go play one, and see what it is all about !

....Tc....

Now that I look at it, you only win $1.80. So really I think it's worth the effort. Don't see where there's better pay for 5 or above, or am I wrong?

yes in a 180 man mtt top5 does pay better but if you get the hang of it you should be able to make a profit fairly easy. I'm currently on 3 out 3 wins in the 5.50$

speaking of sngs and playing one hand...got AA 5th hand last nite and put someone on a flush draw after flop...the BB folded after calling the preflop raise of 120..so im heads up against the draw and turns out i was on a good read...he missed the flush and i double up plus some...lost connection...came back and the tournie was heads up about 20 mminutes later with my 2600 chips up against 10000...lost connection again and settled for second playing 1 hand

Well, I did it, and it took 33 minutes of my time ! I played 5 premiumn starting hands, and had a couple of BB hands win small pots for me, it was really pretty easy.

PokerStars Tournament #111856581, No Limit Hold'em
Buy-In: $10.00/$1.00
10 players
Total Prize Pool: $100.00
Tournament started - 2008/10/03 - 08:49:37 (ET)

Dear Topcat1954,

You finished the tournament in 1st place.
A $20.00 award has been credited to your Real Money account.


Congratulations!
Thank you for participating.

I'm doing ok with the $5 gm. Playing premium hands early then aggressive at the bubble. If you're a patient player I think the $5+ gms are a good b/r booster, don't take long and pretty easy to cash. I like 'em .

TOPCAT YOU ONLY WON 20$ FOR FIRST PLACE???WHEN U BOUGHT IN FOR 11??SEEMS TO ME THATS NOT RIGHT..YOU DONT WIN MUCH SO I DONT THINK I WILL PLAY THESE LOL

Where else can you double your money in 33 minutes? I love poker!

DonkSlayer, I was just the chip leader with 5 left, as long as you have any chips left at 5 players you essientally win, and it was really easy to get the $9 profit ! If a guy wanted to do 4 of these at a time, and do it 5 times a day, cashing in 15 of the 20 of them, he could make $100 a day, in under 5 hours.....based one this one experience, and simple math !

....Tc....

Okay Tom, lol..I went and tried one of these. But I only got in one of the $1.10 sng ones hehehe...pretty easy to make the money, but I guess I had have to get into the ones like your playing at $5.50 to see decent profit out of them. I might just go try it.

bij mij was t ook zo, dubbelop en rustig wachten maar EASY MONEY

During current Hold'em session you were dealt 39 hands and saw flop:
- 1 out of 4 times while in big blind (25%)
- 1 out of 5 times while in small blind (20%)
- 0 out of 30 times in other positions (0%)
- a total of 2 out of 39 (5%)

Dealer: buick60 wins the tournament - congratulations!

Seemed to work for me.Boy the short stacks get pretty desperate cause it's a Turbo.

8 for 8 on these, they werent turbos yesterday though, I think it kind of sucks that they changed them.

I just e-mailed support asking them to give the choice of turbo or not in these. I hope more birdies will do the same.

I tried these yesterday. Played 4. Problem is you need to consistently win. Played the 1.10 level. Didn't play the first 2 correctly. Tried to play aggressive and lost. Sat back and waited for the next 2 and won. No profit though. There is only a .90 profit for each one. 1.10 x4 is 4.40, won 2, profit of 4.00, down .40. If you can win 3 out of 4 you're okay. Still not as big a profit as a regular SNG though. Could be good for boosting your bankroll though. You have to be really patient and only play the premium hands seems to me.

Hello Mark,

Thank you for your email. It's possible we may end up running both, as I
said we are still testing them out and will make a decision based on the
popularity of each type of event.

If you have any further questions please don't hesitate to get back in
touch with us.

Regards,

ScottW
PokerStars Support Team




----- Original Message -----
From: mredburn10@yahoo.com
Sent: 2008/10/03 11:53:25
To: support@pokerstars.com
Subject: RE: Double or Nothing

>What would be the harm in running both and giving people a choice? I have
played a number of these and even in the non turbos none of them lasted
more than an hour.
>The turbo has seemed to speed it up by about 5 minutes. I hope you will
really consider running both.
>
>--- On Fri, 10/3/08, PokerStars Support <support@pokerstars.com> wrote:
>
>From: PokerStars Support <support@pokerstars.com>
>Subject: RE: Double or Nothing
>To: mredburn10@yahoo.com
>Date: Friday, October 3, 2008, 11:50 AM
>
>Hello Mark,
>
>Thank you for your email. We are still experimenting with the format of
>these events, but we had already had a lot of players complain that the
>events took too long and that the 10 minute levels were too slow.
>
>We will consider feedback from all players before making a final decision
>as to how these events will be structured.
>
>If you have any further questions please don't hesitate to get back in
>touch with us.
>
>Regards,
>
>ScottW
> PokerStars Support Team
>
>
>
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: mredburn10@yahoo.com
>Sent: 2008/10/03 11:43:57
>To: support@pokerstars.com
>Subject: Double or Nothing
>
>>Double or Nothing. Great tournament and great idea for a tournament. Now
>why did you have to go and ruin them and turn them all into turbos. At
>least give us the option of turbo or not. Turbo favors the aggressive
>player a lot and I think it is very unfair that you give no choice but to
>play turbos. Yesterday they were not turbos, why the change?