Tournament Play

MIT 15.S50 Poker Theory and Analysis, IAP 2015
Instructor: Kevin Desmond

In this session Kevin Desmond discusses the tournament life cycle, flop-turn-river play, poker psychology, bankroll management, and the class league results.

License: Creative Commons BY-NC-SA

[creativity.studio]

At 3:01, he says you cannot re-enter tournaments. The truth is, that many tournaments allow re-entry during the first few hours. Lots of people travel great distances to enter a tournament and have a lot of fixed expenses, like hotels and travel, so it's nice to be able to re-enter if you got sucked out on, during the early game, where players often play more aggressively, especially before the re-entry period ends.

[Catcrumbs]

So glad they fixed the audio at 5:42
Spoke too soon! 19:56

[brugerf]

The class is not complete, has many missing slides!

[bber]

Not bad, but in my opinion his zones are wrong as per Harrington. 6-10 M is not stealing zone, according to Harrington it's the zone where you play super aggressive and basically need to go all in. When going all-in need to follow the "First in-Virgorish Rule" as well.

[chaosordeal]

OK, technically if the small stack has M=3 and pushes against a table of rational players, they should ALL call, no matter what they have. This renders the greatest possibility that the all-in small-stack player will bust out, no matter what the cards are. Also, it's not rational to continually let the small stack player steal the blinds. However, the chance that you will play at a table where everyone is rational always approaches 0%.

[CNCTEMATIC]

This guy is teaching to one student. I hate it when teachers do that--so many do.

[carlostere]

This is all for beginners players right? i mean no one opens to 3X anymore

[pedrolopa]

lol why is he talking about partnership when he barely taught how to play poker

[StarrWolf]

Either this guy is teaching complete amateurs who have no idea what he is talking about or the class is proficient players who think he doesn't know what he's talking about