The Melbourne Poker Championships are almost here for another year ... so its tournament time again!
My plans for the fortnight include a few events, and hopefully a few final tables. I don't want to go too crazy & play too many events, however by the same token, if I am playing well I would like to maximise my opportunity to make some money.
The plans at the moment are as follows:
Saturday May 16th - Step 2 Main Event Satellite ... the plan is to obviously try to win a seat in the main event. If I don't, I'll be giving the main event a miss - I don't think No Limit Hold'em is my best game, so I see little point in paying $1100 to enter when I don't feel as though I will be able to make the money in such an event very often.
Sunday May 17th - either the $175 NLH event and/or the $120 Poker Pro PLO event. Although I would like to play in the opening event, I really think that I am better suited to playing the Omaha event. I might decide to play the opening event, and if I bust, play in the PLO ... but then why waste $175 playing in the opening event? This is my major pre-event dilemma at the moment.
Tuesday May 19th - $175 PLO ... I have been playing PLO cash games a lot more often recently, with the $1/2 PLO game now looking like it might be a regular fixture on Thursday, to go with the occasional Tuesday night $2/4 PLO game. Having said that, cash PLO is very different to tournament PLO, particularly when you have increasing blinds and no rebuys. The ROR-factor (aka: Risk of Ruin) is much greater in tournaments, which means that you don't get the sometimes ridiculous multi-way all-in pre-flop situations that you do in cash games with people who are 'there to gamble'.
Saturday May 23rd - $230 NLH ... I will play the second flight of this $100k guaranteed event. Although NLH is not my strongest game, I feel that with longer blind levels my advantage is higher, though I still struggle with balancing the need to continue to accumulate chips & choose good spots to play with the need to protect the stack that I have built in the middle section of tournaments. As a result, if I get near the money/final table I tend to be one of the shorter stacks, which obviously makes it more difficult to take home the trophy at the end of the day.
Monday May 25th - $340 PLH/PLO ... Very similar thinking to the reasons for playing the PLO tournament, though when there is a Hold'em/Omaha rotation, it tends to make either the NLH play much looser, or the PLO much tighter. Either way, I am fairly comfortable with such a situation, so hope to do well in this event.
Saturday May 30th - $120 Poker Pro NLH ... Again, its the deep stack nature of the event that really attracts me. I'm not a huge fan of PokerPro by any means, but more chips tends to reward the solid/patient style that I prefer to play.
There may be a few other events that I could end up playing, depending on time and money, and generally how I have been going in other events. Will see how it goes ... wish me luck!!
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