{"id":34427,"date":"2014-01-28T10:56:38","date_gmt":"2014-01-28T09:56:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/?p=34427"},"modified":"2021-07-01T15:27:10","modified_gmt":"2021-07-01T15:27:10","slug":"can-bigchedda-cut-wpt-borgata-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/can-bigchedda-cut-wpt-borgata-open.html","title":{"rendered":"11 Tips For Playing Live – As We Ask Can \u2018BigChedda\u2019 Cut It At The WPT Borgata Winter Poker Open?"},"content":{"rendered":"
Seriously on a scale of 1 to 10 with 1 being “calm as a Hindu cow”<\/strong> and 10 “Ohh my god my house is on fire”<\/strong> how nervous would you be about attending your first live poker event? Does that dial go to 11 yo might ask?That’s what our stateside reporter\u00a0Travis T Williams (who’s no stranger to the world of live poker) was thinking when he found out that one lucky winner was being sent to the Borgata Open to play in the $3,500 No Limit Hold \u2018Em Main Event with a $3,000,000 Guaranteed Prizepool.<\/p>\n

As Travis mentions ” Well yeah I was happy to offer free advice to whoever it may be, before the lamb was set before the lions. I quickly learned that \u2018BigChedda\u2019 was happy to hear what I had to say.<\/p>\n

Top 11 tips for playing live:<\/strong><\/h3>\n<\/header>\n
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  1. The best advice I can give is to have fun. \u00a0Enjoy the experience.<\/li>\n
  2. Remember that no matter how great you play a hand, you simply cannot win the tournament on Day One, and certainly not in the first level.*<\/li>\n
  3. There is absolutely nothing wrong with folding.**<\/li>\n
  4. Be mindful of your table image. \u00a0If you limp into pot after pot, they\u2019re gonna start raising you. \u00a0If you raise every hand, they\u2019re gonna start three-betting you. \u00a0If you raise every button, they\u2019ll defend their blinds to the death.<\/li>\n
  5. The biggest problem I have had in larger buy-in events, including this event last year \u2013 was waiting so long for that premium hand pre-flop and failing to admit that I was beaten after the flop, no matter how unlikely. \u00a0I got the entirety of my 30K stack into the middle in level two on Day 1A last year with [88] on a QQ8 5 board with no flush possible, not even a flush draw. \u00a0As unlikely as QQ, Q8, and Q5 were\u2026 sure enough, he had Q5\u2026 and I was on the rail. \u00a0I played a massive pot without the stone nuts in a tournament with a fantastic structure.<\/li>\n
  6. If I had checked back on the turn in this hand, as crazy as it seems \u2013 my opponent would not have had the chance to check-raise all-in, and I might not have been faced with an all-in bet on the river.<\/li>\n
  7. Don\u2019t get too wrapped in playing overly cautious. \u00a0After all, you\u2019re there for free. \u00a0Most of these sorry saps in\u00a0the competition had to put up their own hard-earned money to play.<\/li>\n
  8. For the love of God, don\u2019t give away free information by showing how great your fold was after they bet and you know you\u2019re beaten.<\/li>\n
  9. Also, as much as it hurts inside, try to refrain from showing the bluffs. \u00a0One of the reasons your rare bluffs will be effective is because you never got caught and you\u2019ve built up such a tight image.<\/li>\n
  10. After I got all my chips in with one out in the dreadful pocket eights hand, I took a long and lonely walk back to my room. \u00a0I eventually let my supporters talk me into firing a second shell. \u00a0On Day 1B, I got a ton of chips in with AK in the Big Blind vs AQ on the button. \u00a0I never looked back after that hand. \u00a0I bagged up a top-ten stack and dominated most of Day 2. \u00a0Day 3, I lost a big one with KK vs KQ on a JTx flop. \u00a0Real heartbreaker. After the hand, I still had well above an average stack, but my spirit was broken.<\/li>\n
  11. I let my emotions get in the way and cost myself an in-the-money finish (and thousands of dollars). \u00a0100 places paid out of 1000+ entrants. \u00a0And I went out around 108th place shoving in way too many chips pre-flop with 88 when I could\u2019ve raised and then folded when the button woke up to AA behind me.\u00a0Hindsight\u2019s 20\/20, right?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Again, have fun, and Good Luck<\/p>\n

    Credit where credit is due<\/strong><\/h3>\n

    * This is what I like to refer to as \u201cThe Hollywood Theorem,\u201d courtesy of\u00a0Brian Hollywood<\/a>.<\/p>\n

    ** First (poker) book I ever read was\u00a0@LeeHJones<\/a>\u2018s \u201cWinning Low Limit Hold \u2018Em.\u201d \u00a0Lee finally made folding sound like a great idea. \u00a0My favorite book to date,\u00a0@TheTommyAngelo<\/a>\u00a0on Twitter\u2019s \u201cElements of Poker\u201d. \u00a0Tommy makes folding fun.<\/p>\n

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    From Travis T Williams aka @OnAFoldDraw<\/a> “11 Tips For Playing Live Poker” http:\/\/t.co\/K3Grsj4oK7<\/a><\/p>\n

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    \u2014 partypoker (@partypoker) January 28, 2014<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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