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losing 15 bb in 30 minutes (assuming your a player with +ev of 1bb/h or more) is nothing, in fact thats completely standard and you better get used to it.In order to play without a very high risk of going broke your going to need a bankroll of at least 100bb, and even then a +ev player should expect to lose 100bb on a fairly regular basis.(even if your good you can still expect to go broke on this bankroll occasionally)a safe bankroll is generally recommended about 300x the bb (more for pl and nl) It would take a very long series of bad luck sessions to put a good player down this much, but v

In a tournament it is generally best to play tighter early on, as blinds increase you can begin to open your game up more. Finally if you reach the later stages you can open up all the way and play as loosely as you would in a cash game.The reason for staying tight early on is that the advantage of gaining chips is outweighed by the disadvantages of getting highly short stacked or knocked out.For example in a cash game if you held KhQh, and the flop came Jh 10c 5h, and you were raised for all of your chips, you should call every single time. You've got 15 almost guaranteed outs, and an aditi

you dont know hes a 5 to 1 dog, in fact most of the time his opponent will have hit nothing and will fold immediately. Furthermore, even if he hits bottom pair, a draw, or maybe even second pair he might still fold.

im sorry it wasnt a 2x raise it was 4x, but i only called the bb originally (before the raise on the button) and 3 others allready called the raiser before it got to me. This type of play is a regular occurence on the early hands of the sit n go game i play, more often than not most of the players will not hold a premium hand. Also, play is regularly extremely aggressive postflop early on. Their are usually a couple wackos that try and steal every pot with huge overbets, they usually get knocked out within the first 20 hands. This means my low pocket pair has tons of implied value if i hit

ok so heres the first hand of a 10$ sit n go, i got pocket 2's on the button, call, then a 2x raise, get 4 callers so i call.(first hand 800 starting chips, 10/15 blinds)flop is 257 rainbow, one near pot sized bet from player A. I just call hoping that the other guy will call as well, and he does.turn is another 5 giving me a boat, now player a comes out firing again betting about half the pot, again i just call and so does B. River is a high card (k or q) player A bets out about half his remaining chips, I reraise all in (about 450 chips) and A calls, and turns over pocket sevens, Doh!My fi