Victory at PokerStars MTT

i barely knew what i'm doing, but i just won a $10+$1 buy in MTT (190+ entrants) at pokerstars in stud H/L...i just started playing this game last week, i guess i can chalk it up to supersystem2 again...

Wow, congratulations. Did you feel pretty good about how you played or was it still a bit of a struggle to play correct strategy?

SS2's writings on the matter were very good, Todd Brunson did a nice job with it.

i feel great about how i played...although i was probably the most inexperienced player in the tournament, i stuck to my gameplan which was to play mostly starting hands with strong LO possibilites (and flush draws and high pairs) and let the high hands come. i won something like 85% of the hands that i took to the river, so i did a good job of ensuring that i took at least a piece of the pot when i had significant chips committed. after the 2nd break or so i had a good amount of chips, and turned up the aggression. from this point forward, if i played a hand, i raised to build the pot and to narrow it down to only 1 or 2 other players (i dont know if this is the proper strategy for this game, but it seemed to work ok). anyway, this resulted in stealing alot of blinds and antes, as well as allowing me to take down a good amount of pots on 4th and 5th street. then, once we got to the money (top 16), players began to play pretty wrecklessly, and i probably knocked out half of the remaining players along the way. by the time it reached the last 3 or 4 of us on the final table, i had a significant chip lead, and played pretty much every hand until 5th street. i caught some nice hands, and took the victory (although i did give myself a little scare when it came down to heads up, since i had never played limit stud heads up before). anyway, after almost allowing the opponent to catch up to even with me, i hit 2 or 3 big hands and won the tourney.

anyway, thats the strategy i took throughout the tournament, i have to attribute catching some hands as part of the reason i won obvoiusly, but i think i played pretty solid. i would love to hear some critiques of how you feel i played

hmm, I really would more so need to see hands to give any insights. Stud I tend to play more "drawing" hands then high pairs, but that's more my style of playing then anything. Just keep following the Platinum rule and I'm sure you'll be in good shape.

As for cutting down the number of players, I'm happy with it, the idea is to make people pay you off when they are behind, being aggressive in your betting in any limit game (when you have a good hand) is usually the right idea. Brunson sure preaches the aggression in SS2, so you know, you always have that going for you.

I'm curious how you found heads up play. I love it personally, with a good chip lead and solid aggression you should be able to control most heads up matches.

that was exactly the situation, i had a large chip lead (4:1 at least), and i was sure to be aggressive like i always am. the over aggression kicked me in the butt once or twice when the other guy made his hand, but it also helped to produce larger pots so that when i hit my hands i made out really well. the one hand i remember that practically sealed the deal was when i had a LO draw and a flush draw heading into 7th street and i made my flush (neither of us had a low hand)...i believe after i won this hand i had something like a 12:1 advantage and it was mine from there...

Congrats on the win Dscott! Very nice pot you won,keep it goin

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Nice job Dscott and no we will not give you a penny because you need 20 cents to play. In Stud you have to be very patient, especially limit. I played to aggressive early and got short stacked and never revieved. Anyways hope to see some NL Holdem freerolls on Pokerstars and good luck to all.

Good Job on your win. BY the way how much money did u win.