Lets say you are starting in a live tourney playing quality hands and the flops are coming low cards more than quality flops. do you change your starting hand requirements or just stick with your current hands and wait for flops to come around?

I never change my starting hand requirements because of missing flops. I believe that this is a poor strategy.

I'd start betting into those ragged, low flops. Throw out some 1/2 pot size bets, and I'll bet you'll take down quite a few.

If you have high cards, raise PF, bet into a ragged board, and your called I'd watch out. Either your playing with retards calling raises PF with crap, or your running into hands. When a tard calls 4xBB with J7o and the flop come 327 rainbow, you have to let go of your decent hand. Shame, but true.

The cards have no memory. For all you know the next 7 flops will have all big cards.

It's bad luck to allow superstition to change your strategy.

kick yourself for raising all in pre-flop. All you have is 2 cards with AKs. You should bet it, but one lesson I have learned repeatedly is not to run all in with AKs until the late stages of tourneys.

Originally Posted by Gryff

What do you do when you raise all in preflop with AKs and J7o calls you and hits a flush?

/sigh.

Well this is poker, and it happens, but you need to make the right decisions.

Originally Posted by The Real DeCoy

kick yourself for raising all in pre-flop. All you have is 2 cards with AKs. You should bet it, but one lesson I have learned repeatedly is not to run all in with AKs until the late stages of tourneys.

completely disagree... with AK you're almost never in bad shape allin preflop, and its more important for you to double up early than stay alive until you can..what? get AK on the bubble, push, and get called by and lose to pocket 4's...?