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Joe Tall mixes it up once again by sitting in a $50+5 Multitable No-Limit Hold'em tournament. He tells some interesting stories of the $10,000 events he has played and the observations of he has made of well known MTT pros. He uses those observations and goes over them. The video is edited to show key hands thoughout the tournament.
Posted about 1 year ago
tags: joetall joe tall mtt tournament stories tournament observations ipod friendly archive
Micro/Small Stakes,
80 min long
Comments for Joe Tall Plays a $50 MTT
PygmyHero
Joe, I have a question regarding a concept you discuss from about 3:00-8:00 in the video. During that time you talk about Greg Raymer and John Juanda opening for about 2.7 times the BB pre flop.
If I understood correctly you were saying that raising 2.7x rather than 3x puts more virtual chips onto the table, making the raise look larger than it is. The result may be intimidated opponents who are more likely to fold.
Did I understand that correctly? Also, would you consider it a benefit that it is more difficult for your opponent to correctly calculate their odds given an unusual sized raise?
Thanks.
Posted 9 months ago
Joe Tall
FounderI will say that I made this video about 6-months ago and is part of our Archived videos.
Here is what I said about the video back then:
Ok, first the 2.7x raise the BB was really from Greg. And back in 2004 when I used to see him at Foxwoods at 2p2 meet ups he talked about such basic MTT stuff all the time but he did post this stuff too. I could search for the post but I'd be damned to find it! His concept is that he steals the blinds so often when his M is high that when he misses the flop/gets resistance, he saves 0.3 blinds and keeps the pot a bit smaller. I watched Alex Jacob do this RELENTLESSLY at the Foxwoods WPT April of '06 (where he 'broke through' and came in 2nd for ~600k). I got to play 13 hours with him on day one, I knew he was an old poster on 2p2, "AJoGoAllIn" and we talked about that at a break. So I just honed in on him, watch him pound preflop w/2.7x-ish raises.
The small chip denomination comments, all the top TV-MTT guys seem to do this in live trnys. Simple , I guess, instead of raising w/3-chips, they raise with 12 chips! (3-100 chips or 12-$25, etc)! And since they do this consistently, it just looks consistent with their already established image, STRONG.
I guess another benefit would be the confusing ratios it would represent, yes.
Posted 9 months ago
PygmyHero
Thanks for the reply Joe - I didn't realize that this video had a thread in the Archived Video forum. So I guess you're saying this was one of the old videos from before the DC change-over? I guess I figured the threads would be migrated over whenever a video was re-produced. But maybe that's really difficult/impossible to do.
Anyway, no big deal, I guess it gives me some extra stuff to read now since I've watched a number of other old videos that probably have threads in the archives as well. Good to know.
By the way, why is there no Joe Tall video in Season Two?
Posted 9 months ago
Joe Tall
FounderYeah, this is pretty damn tough as the new-DC vids are in different formats.
Not in-season, no. I have a 3 month old and taking on "Donk to Stud" in Season One drained me, along with being a dad for the first time more-so. But I put a LOT of work into Donk2Stud, I had to take 4 complicated games and condense them, not give to much for confusion and put it all together as a whole. In fact the first video took about 50hours (research, planning, plotting/writing the whole series), the rest feel into place after that but I loved the project. So, I've been busy working behind the scenes. I will focus on getting a standalone produced.
I appreciate you asking, nice to see I have someone who missed me! ha!
http://joetall.com/blog/?p=197 = keeps me busy, but way worth it, nmo!
Posted 9 months ago
PygmyHero
Joe, congratulations! Your baby's really cute. She looks so happy in that picture! Really it's probably just gas.
I'll look forward to future vids - I enjoy seeing some non-Hold 'Em content from time to time. I also think you have a different approach to the game (here I mean more mentally than technically), and I think it's valuable to see that come through in the videos.
But I know what you mean about the time drain - I just did my first solo video and I think it took around 30 hours. And I didn't even have to integrate the concepts or ideas into a larger story arc.
Anyway, good luck with the parenting!
Posted 9 months ago
Hypnotic
+1
I'm a big fan of Joe Tall vids, too.
Good luck with the baby! Ours comes in Aug!
Posted 9 months ago