The $1 Million event is on Sunday, March 14, 2010 at 18:00.
To buy in directly to the Million event will cost you $500+35, however, Sun Poker are running many hundreds of satellites where you could easily win your seat to the tournament. Satellites are starting from as little as 44 cents so what better value can you want?
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Team RedKings is playing day 1a of EPT Berlin today and as usual Red Kings Blog will be giving you all the updates on the EPT Berlin game too.
To enter the free rolls you will need a password, this can be found on the Red Kings blog.
Just a “good luck Team RedKings ” on the blog in support of Team Red Kings Players David Wintersberger, Christian Heich, Ivo “the chessmaster” Donev, Ramzi Jelassi, Toni Ojala and Stephan Kjerstad, who entered the tournament today!
Info about todays Freeroll:
Name: Blogs.redkings.com FR 1
Date & Time: 3/3 at 20:00 CET
Prizepool: $250
Buy-in: FREE!
Team RedKings is playing day 1b of EPT Copenhagen today and you will be able to follow them live at the RedKings blog along with all the other action as it unfolds.
Watch out in the blog for the passwords for all the free rolls to commemorate the EPT Copenhagen.
To get today’s Freeroll password announced we need some comments posted to today’s blog. Just a “good luck Team RedKings ” will do or something else that will support our Team Players Ramzi Jelassi, Stephan Kjerstad, David Wintersberger, Toni Ojala and also our 3 qualifiers who entered the tournament today!
Info about todays Freeroll:
Name: FR 2
Date & Time: 17/2 at 20:00 CET
Prizepool: $250
Buy-in: FREE!
Password: Make a blog comment and get it! Click here to go to Red Kings Blog
Tournament strategy – Massive MTTs
Obviously, there’s a lot of money to be made in massive MTTs. Tournaments like PokerStars’ Sunday Million attract thousands upon thousands of players for a good reason: the large number of participants means a huge prize-pool which in turn means that the possibility to take down a life-changing prize is always there.
How do you approach such massive MTTs though? Specialists categorize players into “foxes” and “farmers”. The foxes are those who go after the win while the farmers are well content finishing in the money and possibly doubling up their initial investment.
From a mathematical perspective, the fox approach is the right one, because – while it does hit players with increased variance – in the long-run – it will result in bigger profits. Despite that fact, most players are farmers: they aim for the money. They reckon once they reach the money and they’re guaranteed that they won’t lose their buy-in, they can swing into action and attempt to go as deep as possible.
The problem with this sort of approach is that it postpones critical (and why not call them lucky) moves crowding them up past the money bubble. A player who plays in fox mode will distribute these critical situations along the entire length of the tournament, while the farmers will be forced get lucky often, past the money bubble. What critical situations am I talking about? Coin-flips and good-old Lady Luck of course.
Everyone knows that in order to win a massive MTT, one needs to get lucky several times during the event and win several coin-flips along the way. There are no exceptions to this rule. Whether you’re a beginner or a seasoned tournament professional, you will have to get lucky. Good tournament players do seem to be luckier than beginners though, and there’s a good explanation to why that is the case. Because they don’t only aim for the money bubble but rather for the win, good tournament players spread their gambling all through the tournament. What that means is that they won’t have to gamble with their backs against wall, which means they will be able to pick their spots better.
What good is there in picking your spots? You may ask. A coin-flip is a coin flip after all, isn’t it? Well, not quite. You see, there are certain things players can do to better their con-flip odds. Taking advantage of the fold equity is one such thing. Also, coin-flips are not that threatening when you do not have your tournament life riding on them.
Good tournament players also have a knack at taking risks when the potential payout is the best.
When it comes to actual strategy, using the Harrington system is your best bet. Keep it cool in the early stages. Folding pocket rockets when faced with multiple all-ins early on is not something uncommon amongst pros. These guys feel they’re there for the long-run and therefore they’re ready to do anything to protect their stacks, especially during the low-blinds stage when there’s no pressure to take gambles.
You should gradually loosen up towards the middle stages, steal blinds and exploit the general tightness brought about by the money bubble.
You should also sign up for rakeback or VIP loyalty deal by all means. Rake rebate may work best for cash games, where you pay rake on every hand, but a good rakeback deal will save you money on the tournament fees too.
High buy-in tournaments usually feature high tournament fees, and since you know that a good tourney player can only hope to win 1 of about every 40 tournaments, the importance of the rake back deal (or possible that of poker prop deal) becomes obvious.
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