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in with twenty two thousand five hundred
chips at four hundred eight hundred
plenty of time to find a good spot to
double up or chip up we're coming in
fresh it's four o'clock had a good
breakfast we're drinking some juice
standard be magnificent a little workout
everything's handled at home we're in
the zone let's make some money today at
the wind today my opening amount will be
min rates no deviation double the big
blind let's see what happens
I lose a small pot with middle pair
versus bottom pair he bet called the
flop
check check turn check check river of
course hit trips on the river and didn't
even know it
we got a recreational on our hands let's
get his chips
the blinds at 400 800 800 open up pocket
fives in middle position elderly
Caucasian male flats in the hijack and
were heads up the flop comes Queen 4 3
rainbow a fine flop for my hand
let's see bet for value make it 1,500 he
puts him to call we're targeting all of
his ace high type hands
preferably you know ace deuce ace 5
maybe even a sax whatever I want to get
that value turns an ace hopefully
doesn't have a high maybe he just has 4
X 4 3x pretty unlikely just in case he
had the pure float and like King Jack
off
I put another bet maybe we can get a
bigger pair to fold I don't know what
the hell I'm doing I bet 2,200 and he
snap raises to 5,000 what's he repping a
set since I bet so small pre flop flop
and turn we are getting the correct
price too ugly set mine or wheel mine
too uncommon terms so he put in the call
if he is bluffing he should shut down
now when someone's line makes no sense
it's hard to make sense of it the rivers
of for thought I hit but I didn't I
check and he checks behind and shows
East 6 offsuit fold pre fold flop don't
know what the hell he's doing raise and
turn but Who am I to criticize he got me
good and we now have 12,000 chips
the same recreational open limps middle
position local reg limps behind I'm in
the small blind with twelve thousand
chips King Jack offsuit could complete
but there's a lot of money out there
might as well take it down and get rid
of our positional disadvantage I'm
all-in
big blindfolds recreational ass for a
count and he puts in the call / limper
folds and recreational has ace king nice
trap you got me good let's hit a jack
and I'm out of the win $230 rebuy only
been here about 40 minutes not the
desired result
but that's poker that's gambling a lot
of things got to go your way to go deep
in a tournament until next time sign up
on a CR and raise your edge what's up
guys jeff Boesky here today we're gonna
be talking about a very common question
that I get and it is when is the best
time to register for a tournament
we now have options with late reg being
2 to 6 hours after the tournament starts
should I show up on time all the way to
should I have max late reg let's go over
the pros and cons of each when you
register on time you're there for every
hand every hand counts and you want to
see every hand you paid full price you
want to get max value for your
experience you don't smoke cigarettes
you already went to the bathroom you're
ready to play for the next two hours
let's get in there and play this might
be your first live poker tournament and
you're excited to play why would you
want to miss hands you drove all the way
from California or flew in from the east
coast to play this tournament you're
there to play you're not lazy you're
excited let's get in the action you want
to cherish every moment in every memory
that this tournament brings you another
great reason for registering on time is
you're a great deep stack player you'd
like playing with at least a hundred
blinds and your stack so you can really
push those edges you know how to put
pressure on you know how to avoid
coolers and you know how to cooler
others so if you get there early you'll
have the maximum stack depth to really
punish your opponents if you happen to
be winning at a rate of ten big blinds
per hundred the more hands you see the
more hands you play the more you're
gonna realize this win rate let's get in
there early and capitalize another thing
to factor in is the strength of your
opponent's on average the people that
pre-reg or Red John time are gonna be
weaker recreational players most of the
pros think their times too valuable and
they're gonna late reg they might be
doing something else they might be
playing another tournament it doesn't
matter all the softest competition will
be there from the start so you have to
be there to get their chips before
somebody else does another advantage of
starting early is getting reeds that's
right you get to see all the hands that
people play before you have to play a
hand in reality you can just play tight
fold 90 percent your hands and
accumulate reeds on your opponent's
before they have Reed's on you you get
to know about their timing their sizing
their ranges their mannerisms their
general mindset compared to if you
register four hours into the tournament
you pick up ace Jack suited and get
three bet you don't know anything about
the player and you don't know what to do
information is power a lot of people
want to get there on time to gather all
that information here is a scene from
one of my favorite poker movies that
perfectly illustrates what it takes to
get those Reed's at a small cost to your
stack now I bet I can change your mind I
promise that I will lose for at least an
hour
I like that good to me my kind of player
Oh toupee don't Queen lucky thing for me
I had three sixes live reads are think I
talk a lot about this in my coaching
sessions but the longer you're at the
table the more information you're gonna
gather get those live reads while it's
cheap
before the blinds go up in reality we
are all human and humans do have
tendencies and they do have emotions and
most humans aren't good at hiding those
emotions pay attention to their
reactions make mental catalogue of what
everybody does in every situation on
every street and then you can use that
information with pattern recognition to
make a better decision in the future
here are some reasons to not register on
time number one you're not a good deep
stack player it does take some
introspection to realize this some
people design good at deep-set cache
games some people are very good at short
stack tournaments know your strengths
know your weaknesses and adjust
accordingly the first few levels of
tournament poker resemble what a cash
game would be 100 blinds deep no antes
you got to know your ranges you got to
know what lines to take you're gonna
make a very costly mistake the second
reason to not register on time is you're
busy doing other things you want to play
the tournament but you can't sacrifice
that doctor's appointment that lunch
date the business meeting or you just
didn't get enough sleep beforehand you
don't want to sacrifice sleep to get to
a tournament on time if it's gonna
affect your play be well-rested well
nourished and being the zone when you
enter up live poker tournament if
there's four hours of late reg and a
given tournament you might want to find
the happy medium of registering two
hours into it so the blinds are a little
bit more significant but not too
significant so you're in push fold mode
you got to do what's right for you also
I think there is some merit in being two
hours fresher than your competition here
are some reasons to maximum late reg and
what I mean by that is
there's two minutes left of registration
you show up you enter you go on break
you come back you're only in for one
bullet you can't re-enter again you're
four hours later than everybody else but
you're also four hours fresher than
everybody else if it takes 12 hours to
get to the final table you only have to
play eight hours to get there who's
gonna be more mentally alert there's
gonna be more refreshed me the guy who
got there eight hours ago are you the
guy that's been playing for 12 hours
some might argue that the 12 hour player
is more in the zone more focused I
disagree there's definitely a rate of
deterioration when it comes to sleep
deprivation and the mental stress that
comes with playing live poker there's a
lot to pay attention to and hundreds of
decisions to make I'll pick the guy who
has had less decisions to make and is
more mentally clear another advantage of
Mac's late Reggie is you can only be in
for one bullet other guys money got
there at noon busted re-entered busted
re-entered they may be in for three or
four bullets their ROI will be
significantly less than yours you have a
lot more upside on your one bullet than
they have on therefore of course they
have a greater chance of winning the
tournament but is it four times greater
I haven't done the math and it's hard to
quantify but it's really player
dependent with a one bullet theory you
can maximize your profit a min cash
might be 2x the buy-in but if you're in
for three bullets you still lose money
if you min cash how does that feel how
does that affect your mindset these are
things to consider when you think about
firing multiple bullets or just one at
the end of later edge or one and done
from the beginning these are all valid
strategies again do what's best for you
it's important to be realistic with your
expectations and knowing your own skill
ability levels at different blind levels
you might be a great deep stack player
but be a weak short stack player the
inverse might also be true you might be
a
sure with 20 blinds or less never making
mistakes push fold game is on point but
once you get to 50 or 100 blinds you're
lost you're spewing you're playing too
tight or you're playing too loose you're
making big fundamental errors that you
wouldn't make with the 20 big blind
if this is the case I highly recommend
you just Mac slate rich go with what
you're good at
stick with your specialty no reason to
waste chips and time if you're not going
to be profitable with a hundred big
blinds another ICM advantage of Mac
slate edging is about half the field
will be eliminated by the time you enter
that's just less people you have to be
in you're closer to cash you're closer
to the final table and you're closer to
winning half the field is gone half the
battle is over with now I just have to
run up your 20 blind stack or whatever
get to that final table and make it
count and the last benefit of Mac Slater
edging is hourly rate just like a lawyer
or a guy working at McDonald's hourly
rate matters if you max later edge your
hourly rate will be much greater if all
things are equal otherwise in effect
you'll be spending less time for the
same amount of profit in the end your
win rate will be the same but your
hourly rate will be much higher time
efficiency is a thing whoever said time
is money is right everybody's time is
worth something it just depends on what
that time is worth to you when playing a
poker tournament and knowing when to
register in the end it is a personal
preference you have to be honest with
yourself are you focused and excited to
be playing from hand number one or are
you tired in forcing yourself to show up
when you could be doing something else
are you not in a good mindset because
you just got into a fight with your wife
or your backer or another player these
are all things to consider
don't come in there with a bad attitude
it's not going to be profitable be ready
to play whether it's on time or four
hours into the tournament good luck at
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