My railbird time: 

Members:
Members online:
Members in chat:
65756
296
0
Railbirds Tournaments:
Next freeroll: 12 h, 48 m
All tournaments

Railbird Interviews
Use a Railbird anner on your homepage

Rakeback deals

Full Tilt 27%
$600/100%
Betfair 30-37%
$1500/100%
DTDPoker 30%
$450/100%
Opoker 30%
$450/100%
Betsafe 30%
$500/100%
Poker Heaven 30%
$750/100%
Fortune Poker 30%
$1500/200%
FatBet Poker 50%
$0/0%
UltimateBet 30%
$1100/111%
Absolute 30%
$500/100%
CakePoker 33%
$500/100%
High5Action 20-60%
$6500/100%
Minted Poker 35%
$400/100%
PKR.com 30%
$600/100%
Action Poker 35%
$2500/100%
PayNoRake 50-100%
$0/0%
PokerNordica 30%
$400/200%
IronDuke 30%
$300/100%

Bonus deals

Everest $5000/month
$300/500%
Chili Poker $600/150%
$600/150%
RedKings PS3 & Fifa 09
$400/2000%
Goal Win $2000 bonus
$2000/2000%
Betsson 30GB iPod
$0/0%

Special deals

Pacific Poker
$100/25%
LuckyAce Poker Pokerbility
$400/100%
Littlewoods Poker Loyalty Program
$400/100%
Propaganda Loyalty Bonus
$600/200%

Playing Monsters on first hand

Nov 15, 2008 5:28 am Report Abuse

So you pick up AA first hand of a tourney and you don't know what to do. Go all in, you may just get blinds, but shoving on the first hand of a tournament gives other opponents the impression that your a complete donk. Some people may call you with just a weak ace. Trust me shoving on first hand with a monster pays off more than it doesn't.
Also when you make it heads up. I'll give you an example. 5 minutes ago I was playing a 9 man SNG and I made it heads up. He had a little less than a 3:1 chip advantage on me. First hand I got was JJ. I shoved and the guy called me with A5 and my jacks held. 2nd hand is a bit irrelevant, but I got Q10 he min-raised from SB and I called, Flop was Q rag rag and I shove because I now have him covered and he folds. Next hand I am dealt KK (lucky me) I shove and he calls with A9 and I win the tourney.

Even if you don't get a caller this helps give you a very loose image and people will start to call you with less then great hands. Don't get angry if someone sucks out on you, because you decided to create the loose image, rather be happy that you didn't have to play for 2 hours only to go out on the bubble. On another note this is the 3rd straight 1st place in the 3.40 SNGs, woohoo me.


1 comment


Login to add comment...

Duck394 Nov 15, 2008 5:43 am
Generally, I prefer to just raise pre-flop to 3 or 4 times BB, depending on how many already in the hand. As for HU, I've only been there a couple of times and usually had good luck with the all-in or fold strategy.

Login on Railbirds


© Copyright 2009