anyone win a bobblehead?

lol ive done well at tourny's but cant get close to this and its not even money

anyways are u happy with it?

No, I have purposely avoided the bobblehead. I have won some clothes and a hat in that freeroll though. Nothing like playing 5 or 6 hours to watch the last 5 stacks try not to get 1st lol.

I have many years experience with AP freerolls. If you'll tell me what stage of the tourney you usually bust out at I'd be honored to give you my advice. Here's the short version...

Are you making it to the bubble? If not then you are playing too loose which is very common.

Are you busting out repeatedly at the bubble? This is the next stage of skill advancement. If this is the case then you are really doing well! You just need to know when and where to loosen up earlier in the tourney. A lot of it has to do with knowing the flow of the tournament and how many chips you should have at different stages. I commonly have down to half of the big blind amount remaining and that works great for my sneaky, rope-a-dope style. Outside of adjusting your immediate table strategy I don't care about the stack sizes at my table compared to mine. I only care about my stack versus what stage the tourney is in.

Without knowing more details you probably need to over-tighten for now. Please post details about when you are busting out and I will be glad to post some specific ideas. Most of what you hear and read is "be aggressive" but if you don't know when to do so you will probably end up adding to my stack

i do just fine until the last two people then i always seem to lose head to head with bad losses or even just out played always seem to get beat though ive had 50 or 60 2nd places in tournys and only about 9 or 10 firsts any suggestionsty troy

50 or 60 2nd places? If you're talking about the big 5000 player freerolls then I think I'm the one needing advice here! But anyway, here's what I've noticed...

By the time you get to the final table, blinds are getting crazy, people are in the money and they get real loose again (kinda like the beginning of the tourney.)

I always follow the rule of: if the table is loose, you go tight. If the table is tight, you go loose.

But to put that in perspective, I got 1st a week or 2 ago and here's how the head's up action went down. At heads up I was a dog chip-wise. This guy's doing the typical blind stealing, pounding away on me. Especially with me folding crappy cards. So I finally get cards and now here comes the luck factor, I double up. Which buys me more time to wait for cards and also gives me a little fear equity, See, I'm watching his rhythm, etc so When I have some decent cards I cab make a quick raise. He decides "This ass is really trying to play me" and folds. My equity increases.

I finally out-chipped him, got him all in, and he sucked out. So now I had to repeat the process. We went through this 3 times before I advertised with some weak shows and finally got him to push me with a pair of sixes when I had 10 10 and 3 3 lol.

My main weapons are advertising bad hands to get them to push with bad hands or bluffs. I also like playing on their fatigue. So many people just wanna throw it all in and get it done. They start playing faster and looser. So I will start taking long pauses, anything to tilt them into loose/bad play. If they talk smack, I will reply with something like "You don't have to be a bully" or something just sooooo lame and weak sounding. All I'm doing, once again, is encouraging them to beat up on me while I wait for the weird 2 pair hand, trip 2s, etc, that's gonna blast them seemingly from nowhere.

But regardless, there is a lot of luck involved at this stage. My goal is to try and avoid the luck factor. Unless my opponent is clearly putting moves on me and is better than I am. In this case, I'm gonna be the guy pushing with less valuable cards, hoping to get lucky. A lot of people blasted Moneymaker but he illustrated one thing for certain.. if you go all in pre-flop it's less about who is the better player and more about luck. This allows you to make up some of the skill gap between you and the better player.

peace