Poker Strategy: MTT Tournaments
Tips on Playing multi-table tournaments
These tips are for cheap No Limit buy-in tournaments online line, but a lot of these strategy’s can be used in other situations.
Play tight at the beginning of these tournaments. There are a lot of fish and they’re willing to move their chips all-in in an attempt to double up. Try to stay away from these situations unless you hold a premium hand like AA, KK, QQ, JJ, or AK. Try to avoid situations where there are more than one player all-in, unless you hold AA or KK.
Don’t try and bluff during these early stages, you don’t know what type of players your up against and it’s really hard to get some of these players to fold.
Study your opponents so you know what type of players they are. Later in the tournament your going to be in situations with these players and you will need to know if they’ll throw away a hand to a bluff. If they’ll call with second best hand, or if they’ll chase draws that are unprofitable. Use all this information you’ve gained against them when your involved in a hand with them.
Position is extremely important in these tournaments where someone can move all-in. You don’t want to waste money on a call that you’ll have to fold if someone moves all-in on you.
If you have cards that you like to see a cheap flop with (Ax suited, suited connector low pocket pair, hands that can really flop big) make sure you do this from late position.
The outcome of the tournament has very little to do with the early stages of the tournament. Don’t get discouraged if you noticed players with huge stacks and you only have a moderate stack, your cards will come. Normally the players who quickly get a huge stack are playing a lot of hands and taking a lot of chances. They normally don’t change their strategy when the blinds go up and most of these players normally will lose their stacks.
Know your pot odds. Don’t chase draws when your opponent is making it unprofitable for you.
In the middle stages of the tournament you can loosen your play up a bit. Most of the fish have been knocked out and you are now playing against better players. Use the information you got earlier in the tournament and use it to your advantage.
In the later rounds you will be playing against better players and you will be seen as a tight solid player because that's the way you played the whole time. When the blinds are high - this is when you can start stealing when the opportunity comes up. Be very careful and if you get caught, you may not be able to try again for a while.
Avoid playing marginal hands against the Big Stacks and players who can bust you. Take your time and try and pick off short stacks that are desperate and willing to move all-in when you have good hands.
The head table is where you want to be. Once you are there you will find out that it’s more about how many chips you have than the cards that you are getting. If you have the chips you can loosen your play up and take chances by pushing people around. If your short stacked you might have to wait for your spot to move all-in.
Another final table strategy is try not to get involved in multi-way pots. If you have a great hand by all means play it but think before you get involved in a hand. Let the other players but heads, then take advantage of the players that are short stacked.
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