I am just not very good at FLHE. The generic advice I’ve gotten about this game is to make tons of thin value bets and calls, which I try to do, but I think I’m choosing bad spots. My opponents yesterday did not even seem particularly good, but they were owning me left and right. A few examples:
I raise AK on the button, BB calls. Flop 776 with two hearts, I bet, he check-raises, I call. Turn 9 he bets I call. River 2 he bets I think his range is busted heart draw or trips+ so I call and he takes me on a tour of Valuetown with his 55.
Another one, guy raises UTG, I 3-bet JJ, and he calls. Flop 664, he checks, I bet, he calls. Turn blank, he checks, I bet, he raises, I call. River blank, he checks, I bet, he raises, I puke and call, he shows me 65o. Pretty questionable UTG raise even in 6max, but I must admit that he owned me pretty hard with the double check-raise. It’s humiliating to get served like this by fish.
I wasn’t catching much in the NLHE portion, certainly not enough to compensate for my fishiness in FLHE, so I was out pretty quickly. I did like the structure of this event. Instead of alternating between games at the level change, as happens in most mixed game tournaments, they alternated every fifteen minutes. Since there were half hour levels, that meant playing both game at every level instead of going back and forth between them. It was a good idea, though it probably wouldn’t work as well in tournaments with shorter blind levels.
The strategy in FLHE tourney is to conserve chips since you can’t make up for mistakes as easily as you can in NLHE.
“I raise AK on the button, BB calls. Flop 776 with two hearts, I bet, he check-raises, I call.”
Gotta fold there. Any sign of strength in a tourney, get out of the way. Check raise on the turn is even stronger than the check-raised flop. Get out of there!