Ed. Note: Estratégia de satélite de pôquer has just been released by Dara O’Kearney and Barry Carter and the reviews and feedback have been absolutely stellar thus far. Cardplayer Lifestyle wishes to thank the authors for kindly providing us with this exclusive excerpt.
There are lots of obvious reasons to play satellites, but there are probably a few that you may not have thought of.
The first, most obvious, and perhaps best reason to play in a satellite is because it means you can play an event beyond your bankroll for a fraction of the price. If you have only dreamt about playing a World Series of Poker or European Poker Tour event, then the best route to playing one is by winning a package online. If the $10,000 or €5,300 buy-in is out of your price range, but $215 is not, then you could parlay your satellite skills into a seat in one of these events.
Not only does this give you an opportunity to play an event you otherwise would have no chance of playing, it also gives you a mental game advantage. You’ll be competing for a prize pool otherwise beyond your means, so the event is less stressful for you because you can reflect on it as only costing you $215. Whenever you face a big decision for your tournament life you can shrug your shoulders and take a profitable risk, knowing that this once-in-a-lifetime trip only cost $215. Later on in this book we will be exploring the correct way of approaching bankroll management in satellites (Which differs if you are a pro or an amateur) but until then we will assume you are playing with an amount you can afford to lose.
Often the satellites for live events come with travel expenses and spending money, as well as special events exclusive for qualifiers during days off like meals, nights out and tourist experiences. This means that at the very least, satellites give you the opportunity to travel and have a holiday experience, even if you bust out early. Some online poker rooms also have ‘Last Longer’ style promotions between fellow qualifiers with a separate prize for the last remaining online qualifier.
When amateur Chris Moneymaker famously won the World Series of Poker Main Event, he did so via an $86 satellite win. He won $2.5 million from a satellite entry, a prize pool you would never see in an $86 tournament (It’s also worth googling the story of that satellite win, because he had no idea he was playing a satellite at the time). The upside of satellites can be huge.
Those are the obvious reasons to play satellites, but there are a lot of other reasons why satellites remain one of the best kept secrets in poker.
First of all, they are the format of poker which most frequently miss their guarantees. A guarantee in poker is an advertised minimum prize pool where, if not enough players turn up, the operator makes up any shortfall. For example, if an online poker room has a $10 buy-in satellite which guarantees 10 x $100 seats, but only 50 of the required 100 players turn up, then the poker room has to pay the $500 overlay. This effectively makes your $10 buy-in worth $20 without any increase in difficulty and, in the case of satellites, your chance of winning a seat doubles. Poker operators are usually quite good at estimating what their guarantees should be, but satellites, especially satellites to live events, routinely get it wrong. It happens rarely, but most satellite regulars have experienced the situation where the operator has estimated the interest in the satellite so poorly that the number of seats guaranteed is almost the same as the number of players registered, and as a result some players win a ticket without playing a hand.
Os autores do livro, Dara Okearney (à direita) e Barry Carter (à esquerda)
Outro motivo para jogar satélites é que eles apresentam uma maneira viável de ganhar dinheiro por si mesmos.Se você já ganhou um pacote, a maioria das salas de pôquer creditará você com o valor em dinheiro do pacote se você for ganhar um segundo pacote.Eu sou muito conhecido no poker por terminando duas vezes em cima do tiro de liderança do PokiPts Ukipt Satellite, onde eu freqüentemente ganhava um pacote de £ 2.000 em um evento do Reino Unido ou da Irlanda e depois ganhava outros dez pacotes antes do início do evento, significando que eu terminasse£ 15.000 antes de jogar no evento -alvo.Outros operadores realmente permitirão que você não registre o evento de destino e pegue 'dólares de torneio' (T $).Eles funcionam da mesma forma que o dinheiro comum, mas devem ser usados para jogar em torneios no site, para que o site o mantenha jogando nos jogos deles, mas você tem flexibilidade.No caso de satélites mantidos em cassinos vivos, eles tendem a permitir que você pegue o dinheiro lá e depois.Este é um método viável de ganhar dinheiro, mas antes de embarcar nele, certifique -se de saber:
- Se você estiver jogando um satélite "must to tocar", onde é forçado a progredir no evento de destino
- O que a política do operador é sobre o registro e/ou várias vitórias no assento
- Quando o evento começa.Se estiver online e, a partir de breve, você poderá estar automaticamente sentado no evento de destino, sem opção de não registrar (isso nem sempre é uma coisa ruim, uma vez cometi esse erro e acabei vencendo a Super Terça -feira por US $ 86.286, meu maior onlinepontuação)
At the time of writing, online poker sites vary in what their policy is towards satellite grinders so rather than date the material in this book we won’t specify which site has which policy. It is a useful practice to check out the satellite policy whenever you play somewhere new, because it is constantly evolving.
The best reason to play satellites, however, is because they are by far and away the softest form of poker regularly available. It seems very counterintuitive because fundamentally satellites are perhaps the most formulaic, solvable form of poker you can imagine, but that is assuming everyone who plays in them is playing Game Theory Optimal (GTO), which they very rarely are. The biggest and most frequent error in satellites is when somebody ‘plays for the win’ and makes decisions that might maximise their chips in a regular MTT, but in a satellite it would be a suicidal tactic. In satellites everybody is playing for prizes of equal value, so it doesn’t matter if you end with 50% of the chips in play or a single big blind, you win the same prize. Putting your chips at risk in a high variance spot, even when it would be profitable in a MTT or cash game, is a huge error in satellites, where the name of the game is reducing variance. Not only do you see recreational players needlessly bleeding chips on the bubble in satellites, you also see otherwise talented MTT regulars unable to make the necessary ICM adjustments. They can also play too tight, which is also good news, because they are easily pushed off hands on the bubble. Either way, many MTT regulars look down their nose at satellites and do not put in the work they need to thrive in them. In fact, plenty of MTT regulars will scoff at the existence of this book in the first place, arguing it is too simple a form of poker to justify a book, whilst simultaneously making basic errors in them.
Só porque os satélites são macios em geral, não pense por um segundo que você não vai melhorar como jogador, especializando -se neles.Há um equívoco no poker de que "os bons regs de satélite são ruins de MTT" e que alguém só tocava satélites porque não pode vencer os torneios regulares.Provavelmente porque se você vir um jogador amador comete um erro de estudante em um grande torneio, eles provavelmente conquistaram seu assento em um satélite, por isso é um viés de seleção.No entanto, se você olhar para os jogadores que esmagam os maiores satélites regularmente, eles geralmente são alguns dos melhores jogadores do mundo.Os jogadores que espancaram os satellites antigos de passos no PokerStars naquela época, ou os jogadores no topo da tabela de classificação do Partypoker PPL no momento da redação deste artigo, estão entre os maiores regulares vencedores da MTT online, bem como os trituradores do Live SuperTorneios de rolos altos.É uma curva de sino, onde jogadores fracos compõem muito do campo, mas alguns dos melhores jogadores do mundo são especializados neles (no entanto, há muito dinheiro a ser ganho para aqueles no meio).Os frequentadores de satélite, em particular, têm uma compreensão aguda do ICM que até os regulares muito bons da MTT não possuem.Portanto, embora os jogos estejam macios nos níveis baixos, a oportunidade de se tornar um mestre da ICM no topo não tem limites.
É precisamente porque os satélites foram negligenciados pela comunidade de poker séria que eles continuam sendo uma forma de poker rentável.
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