chazmanchaz, Mathclub and merge37 scoop the $500 Party Hi Roller tournament in three successive weeks for ~$20k a piece.

Three weeks ago it was no surprise when chazcombes won the Party Hi Roller as he seems to final table it every other week, and actually similar can be said of both Mathclub and Merge37 who both have impressive resumes on Party, but when Poker-Allies players won the same event three times in a row we felt it was worth documenting!

We sat down with all three players and found out their individual strategies to winning on Party and in particular in their weekly hi roller event.

chaz

Chaz:

In my first 20 odd tournies on Party I didn’t even cash and I feel it was because I wasn’t thinking about adapting to the different structure. Then I realised that on Party you can afford to be more patient than other sites because antes don’t come into play until later than most sites, and generally when people 3 bet you they are very rarely light.

I’ve started to use this to my advantage against the non regs when deep by 3 betting a larger range, and they auto assume you have a monster.

mathclub

Mathclub:

I just played it pretty tight, as you have to do on party with the structure.  Once we got to the final table most of the other players were playing tight as well so I found some good spots to put pressure on people.  I find knowing the Sheets pushing ranges from pokerxfactor.com is key on Party because you often have that awkward 5M-8M kind of stack.

merge

Merge37:

One thing about Party is that Idefinitely play tighter preflop and then don’t look to fold if I can help it post flop because of the structure.

I’m less inclined to go for marginal steals, it just never seems as enticing due to the lack of large antes and awkward stacks. When I do open I make it ~2.2x, a lot of other people miniraise which may be optimal.

I played fairly nitty around the final table bubble and passed a couple of marginal hands where I could have shoved over Sirocko who was the huge chip leader and was opening every hand, but I didn’t feel under a ton of pressure to get it in and felt I could wait for a decent spot to double up – which I eventually did.

After that I won a few more hands at showdown including AA > 88, then four handed I picked up the pace a little and made some steals and won smallish pots to get to 200k. 3 handed lasted forever and it was pretty cagey for a while with scout314 and Sirocko.

Eventually I got heads up, but was faced with a 4:1 chip deficit. I doubled up with A4 > K8 then the final hand I won with a rivered flush after calling a raise pre and barrelling the flop and turn. He called it down with top pair no kicker.

So I guess it must be nice to be merge37 and make flushes when you need them!

So it seems in conclusion that the old adage: “Tight is right” is still the case on Party!