Ask Ryan Laplante About Tournaments

[thatguy6793]

Hey again Ryan!

I’m only mildly stalking your posts so I thought I’d ask some more questions lol.

One thing in MTTs that I get but still need to improve on is shoving in different situations, so what some advice you can give on when and how to use shoving the most effectively?

Thanks again!

 

[0546474]

Hello !!! I played poker on social networks for about 8 years, on conditional chips, and at this time I had a lot of bad habits in poker! Now I'm playing poker for real money for three years now but a lot of bad habits remain !!! I'm working on my mistakes but everything is going very slowly !!! that you will advise how to speed up the process !!

 

[the0]

hi I play at the local casino Turning Stone and am starting a career at $1/$2.

 

[Ryan Laplante]

I just watched you in a 10K NLO8 tourney.

I asked at that table why there are ante's in NOL8 tourneys, and not in PLO8 tourneys.

Why do you think that is?

Due to live structures. Should be antes in both!

 

[Ryan Laplante]

Hey Ryan,

I am a fairly new player. I seem to have a lot of success when I play live. Online I do not Murrow to same success. Can you please give me some advice on areas of study that are more important when it comes to online play that could help even out my statistics? Thanks

Ash

All aspects of your game!

Fundamentally strong games are much more important online than live.

Use resources like RunItOnce, UpswingPoker, etc to work on your game.

 

[Ryan Laplante]

Hey again Ryan!

I’m only mildly stalking your posts so I thought I’d ask some more questions lol.

One thing in MTTs that I get but still need to improve on is shoving in different situations, so what some advice you can give on when and how to use shoving the most effectively?

Thanks again!

Get the program SnapShove!

 

[Ryan Laplante]

Hello !!! I played poker on social networks for about 8 years, on conditional chips, and at this time I had a lot of bad habits in poker! Now I'm playing poker for real money for three years now but a lot of bad habits remain !!! I'm working on my mistakes but everything is going very slowly !!! that you will advise how to speed up the process !!

Study lots of the newer books and training videos!!!

 

[Ryan Laplante]

hi I play at the local casino Turning Stone and am starting a career at $1/$2.

Best of luck!

Try starting to learn using CrushLivePoker!

 

[AshK44]

All aspects of your game!

Fundamentally strong games are much more important online than live.

Use resources like RunItOnce, UpswingPoker, etc to work on your game.

Thanks so much. I have already noticed a difference. I have had a noticeable change in my MTT play as well as cash games. Great tools.

 

[AlexTheOwl]

Do you have any thoughts on Ed Miller's "The 1%" book?

I've read and enjoyed three older books he co-wrote, and am thinking about reading this.

It seems to be mostly about exploiting, and preventing, unbalanced lines. Do you agree with him that this is a huge difference maker between good and great?
Do you think this applies to online tournaments? Is there a certain buy-in where this starts to matter much more?

 

[Ryan Laplante]

Do you have any thoughts on Ed Miller's "The 1%" book?

I've read and enjoyed three older books he co-wrote, and am thinking about reading this.

It seems to be mostly about exploiting, and preventing, unbalanced lines. Do you agree with him that this is a huge difference maker between good and great?
Do you think this applies to online tournaments? Is there a certain buy-in where this starts to matter much more?

I think there are much better books out there (Jonathan Little's latest works).

For onlime games best to use content like RunItOnce to study.

 

[ekgbeat]

Hey Ryan, I have a couple tournament related questions below.

1) Since the huge field tournaments consist of mostly unknowns, how to your approach the early, mid, and late stages in a tournament. Could you talk about the basics in each stage? Not sure if you approach online v live any differently.

2) I know that there are good ICM tools out there, but how do you apply the concepts during live play?

2) For live MTTs, Do you have any math tips for quickly doing any of the basic calcs?

3) For the wsop Main, do you recommend playing the SnG to get into it, or are there better feeder MTTs?

4) Are you going to play any SHRs / sell action on CC in 2018?


Thanks again for doing this.

 

[Ryan Laplante]

Hey Ryan, I have a couple tournament related questions below.

1) Since the huge field tournaments consist of mostly unknowns, how to your approach the early, mid, and late stages in a tournament. Could you talk about the basics in each stage? Not sure if you approach online v live any differently.

2) I know that there are good ICM tools out there, but how do you apply the concepts during live play?

2) For live MTTs, Do you have any math tips for quickly doing any of the basic calcs?

3) For the WSOP Main, do you recommend playing the SnG to get into it, or are there better feeder MTTs?

4) Are you going to play any SHRs / sell action on CC in 2018?


Thanks again for doing this.

1) Population tendencies are huge. Live is much easier to quickly adjust than online. The adjustments i make are pretty similar no matter the stage, however late game i tend to apply more pressure overall.

2) ICM = You stack and tourney life have lots of value. But there are times where it has lots more value. Also applying pressure on othere is much better than having pressure applied to you.

3)Always keep track of the size of the pot.

4)There are lots of 500 to 1k satelites during the summer for it with big fields.

5)I may play 2. I'll likely sell some small action on here through stakekings.

 

[AlexTheOwl]

Working on your game

How many hands do you review in an average week?
How do you select the hands?
How long does it take?
Do you have a regularly scheduled time for study?
What is your process for reviewing hands?
What tools do you use?
Do you study with other players?

 

[CHRIS025]

Question

When is the best time to join a tournament ?
Mid-Start-Late Reg/last minute.

 

[AshK44]

Hello Ryan,

I would like to get your opinion on what style of play you believe in during the early stages of a MTT.

Furthermore, what factors affect a change in your approach if any?

Lastly, when you play a tournament with a large field and a small buy in is there any tips to survive the chaos at the beginning?

Thanks so much for answering all these questions.

Ash

 

[ekgbeat]

5)I may play 2. I'll likely sell some small action on here through stakekings.

Great! I will be on the look out for your listings.

 

[Ryan Laplante]

How many hands do you review in an average week?
How do you select the hands?
How long does it take?
Do you have a regularly scheduled time for study?
What is your process for reviewing hands?
What tools do you use?
Do you study with other players?

When I do reviews its during major series usually, and ill review 1 full MTT HH (200 to 300 hands) every day during it. So I probably average around 50 full HH review a year of my own play and another 75 of students, and Id average likely 300 hands per. So, 600 hands/week on average.

Deepest previous run, unless im doing a database analysis.

Can coach 300-450 hands in 2 hours, can review 300 hands in 30 min.

No scheduled time.

Use PT4 to visualize, go over them quickly looking for mistakes, unless im coaching then do a much thourough job.

PT4, Icmizer, holdem resources, pokerstove, flopzilla, PIO.

Yes

 

[Ryan Laplante]

When is the best time to join a tournament ?
Mid-Start-Late Reg/last minute.

From the start will equate to your highest ROI and leadt variance.

 

[DuffMcGruff]

Hey Ryan,
First off I'd like to thank you for taking the time to answer our questions, I've always wanted to be able to pick a pros brain and I know full time pro poker can be very time consuming.

My question is, how can I find ways to exploit players I'm up against, other than the basic value bet stations, give the aggrotards rope, etc. In other words I'd like to get better at spotting the less obvious ways to adjust in order to exploit better/ more tricky players. Not sure if this is an answerable question or it's just a natural talent/experience thing.

 

[Ryan Laplante]

Hey Ryan,
First off I'd like to thank you for taking the time to answer our questions, I've always wanted to be able to pick a pros brain and I know full time pro poker can be very time consuming.

My question is, how can I find ways to exploit players I'm up against, other than the basic value bet stations, give the aggrotards rope, etc. In other words I'd like to get better at spotting the less obvious ways to adjust in order to exploit better/ more tricky players. Not sure if this is an answerable question or it's just a natural talent/experience thing.

Takes a mix of experience+ advanced understanding of what ranges should look like (PIO use snd other tools) in order to max exploit.

 

[lovemiscou]

Hi Ryan,
First of all thank you very much for being here at CC with this tread, interesting to see a pro's view on poker.

I am going to play a live tourny on the week end, i mostly play on line, so here is my question

Do you know any tricks to help me keep track of the pot size, when i play live , i keep telling my self to had up bets has they go in, but that distracts me from my actual hand, thought may be a pro might have some easy way of keeping track of pot size.

Thanks
Rick

 

[wuffeli]

Hi Ryan. I have a quick question; how would you recommend memorizing hand charts? There are quite lot of things, do I just print em up and check them while playing and learn that way in some time?

 

[Ryan Laplante]

Hi Ryan,
First of all thank you very much for being here at CC with this tread, interesting to see a pro's view on poker.

I am going to play a live tourny on the week end, i mostly play on line, so here is my question

Do you know any tricks to help me keep track of the pot size, when i play live , i keep telling my self to had up bets has they go in, but that distracts me from my actual hand, thought may be a pro might have some easy way of keeping track of pot size.

Thanks
Rick

Know what the blinds and antes equal to ahead of time, then adding a few extra bets to that is pretty easy.

Being able to always know potsize is important, as it shows you are paying a decent amount of attention to the total action.

 

[Ryan Laplante]

Hi Ryan. I have a quick question; how would you recommend memorizing hand charts? There are quite lot of things, do I just print em up and check them while playing and learn that way in some time?

Practice makes perfect!

What few charts I do use (Nash shove charts), I have mostly memorized through practicing lots.