Lo Buyin MTT & SNG Strategy?

[gouger666]

If anyone has good strategy for low buy in donkfests post it here...I'm sure alot of beginners would like to know. I myself play them very tight and aggressive but not too aggressive due to donk calls and suckouts. I rarely bluff in these.

[Dr Fill Good]

Take alot of notes, you are going to find every kind of fish at that level. After you have an idea of the players you are facing make decisions accordingly. Avoid the weak tight players, call down the psycho paths with mid-top pairs if you notice them getting wild.

If possible be the most aggressive on the bubble, from my experience the low buy-in tourneys get insanely tight around the bubble so push in late position as often as possible. (There are always exceptions, which comes back to notes. You need to know who you can steal from and who will call with 72)

Just know your table, you don't have to worry about table image because most of the players you are up against won't notice.

Hope some of this helped.

[wreaks]

Early on, play your big hands really hard and fast. No one believes anyone, and you'll also get called by draws. Later on try to get more equity out of your good and average hands, and call people down with top pair.

Other than that, listen to the Doc. He's got some good advice in there.

[dyehard]

Good advice Doc and Wreaks. Do you think this strategy is applicable to the $5 and $10 buy ins?

[Dr Fill Good]

Taking notes and knowing your table is a good choice at any limit. Probably one of the advantages chipless wonder has on a lot of players is how extensive his notes are. It helps give him so much more info on players, and decision making comes a lot easier. You get a different breed of players as you get into the medium buy ins though, its harder to generalize.

There is a lot of different advice I could give you about it, as those are the tournaments I spent my first 2 years of online poker in, slowly and painfully building up my bankroll and my poker knowledge. But its hard to make sweeping peices advice on it without having a bit more information about troubles you are running into.

[gouger666]

I was thinking of 10$ and under when I made this thread....The 5$ and under are the real donkfests.

[unibetkjell]

I like the 5$ and 10$ 45man-tournaments at fulltilt, and I do exactly as you say.
I often get very far, but at the final table I often get the last place not being payed because I get really passive and afraid to push. I always push with something like A7-AQ when I have to, and then a bigstacker calls with AK, KK, AA, QQ etc all the time.

Earlier today I lost AA vs QQ with only 15 people left and having one of the biggest stacks. Its ****ing annoying, but I dont think I did a bad job going allin preflop and getting called by QQ, but still I regret as ****.