Multi-Table Tournament Poker: Can anybody advise me, please?

The only things you can do to reduce the bad beats are A) play tighter and B) raise bigger when you think you have the best hand. Tight is right, but tighter isn't necessarily righter. I don't know your current standards, so I can't advise you on that.

As for raising bigger, you can raise big pre-flop and get marginal hands that might outdraw you to fold, but that also means you'll usually be facing stronger hands when you actually see a flop. That might be bad because you make money in by playing against inferior hands, but it will reduce the bad beats and you will usually have a better idea of what your opponents actually hold.

If you still want to play the same pre-flop, you can bet or raise big (size of pot or larger) post-flop to get weak hands/draws to fold. People won't give you their money as often, but they'll also deliver fewer bad beats. They also won't bluff you as often. If you go all-in first, they can't try to bluff you. One thing to remember though: the bigger you bet, the fewer decisions you'll have to make later.

Hoyt Corkins, Lee Watkinson, and Lee Nelson (all big tournament winners) frequently use this strategy. However, they also bet big when they're bluffing, so you'll need to be prepared to do that as well or run the risk of being extremely easy to read.

Every strategy has pros and cons, but if reducing bad beats is what you want, this is how you do it. Unless you just want to fold whenever you think someone is weak or bluffing.

I think he was looking at the shortstacked all-in guy's hand (pocket 5s) for those odds. However, if you want to TRY to rationalize the villain's move, he might have figured he had 10 outs to win as well: inside straight draw (4 outs) + 2 overcards to pair (6 outs); not to mention he wins if you fold. In reality of course, he only had 2 outs to win and he hit one of them. It's ridiculous to the point of being comical. Just try not to pull your hair out over this kind of thing. You'd have forgotten the hand completely if the cards fell like they will 88% of the time. It's the 12% that stings.

Ya, it's around 9%.

My biggest concern and question here is that I think that except bad beat option I fuigured it all right. Since that bad beat occurs to me very often and almost always 80% + of the bad beat time happaning the same way and again THE SAME WAY! (the guy with 9% chance to improve at the flop reraising me with his ALL-IN, and won on the river! Maybe the way I play makes them believe that I was bluffing??), got frustrated about it.

So, now i'd like to share it with other players to see where is the room for improvement there. Because i believe there is something I must do.

1. Play it more tight?

2. Beware of loose agressive players?

3. Beware of the stack larger than mine?

4. All of these three?

I understand that this is a . And bad beats are normal, but if they occur too often at the same way, then there must be a pattern. The pattern I want to learn about and eliminate.

I was looking at the villain with 55, who was in pretty good shape.

17% would be closer to 6:1 -- 10.8:1 would be around 9%

Ripya played like an a-hole, he expected two big unpaired hole cards in your hand and figured you were on a bluff, that simple.

Ok, Thanks for the reply.

First i wasn't warrying about seat 6, Ty8829 (65), is sitting out , because of the obvious reason.

Second, my only focus was Ripya, because he had bigger stack, and because I knew he was bluffing with his $800 bets. That's why I raised to

3,475 to scare him off. But when he went all-In, I fugired that i got already pot commited, so there would be better to call rather than fold and throw the best hand at the time. Because I also had my odds too. I admit that after Ripya bet all-in I didn't think much about his hand.

How did you figure that villain had 40% chance to improve his hand after the flop? With flop 3h6c4d and his hole cards 8c7c, he had 10.8:1 or 17% to improve his hand aftre the flop.

And yes, i agree with the other comment that it was free roll!!