Need MTT Advice

Patience is not my problem. I can play in a big MTT and wait for the hands and have good luck doing it. Last night was an example I was in a MTT of 760 people, $110 Buy-in and not getting good cards and was going to have to make moves to win. Early in the tourney I was seeing around 25%-30% of flops and building a decent stack. Later in the tourney with blinds getting pretty big is when i went card dead and always seemed to be faced with a raise when i was in a position to make a move. Any advice in these stages when making moves is essential. Im just not seeing enough flops in these instances however I dont want to call a raise with questionable hands.
Thanks.

Seeing 25% to 30% of flops in the early stages is way too loose unless you meant this was your % when you were on the button or CO. In the late stages if you are card dead I'd say to just keep being patient. Unless the blinds are like 1000/2000 and your stack is 9000 you can wait for a decent, above average hand to play. And you do need to make a few moves but don't go crazy. One or two bluffs in one MTT is more than enough moves I think.

A lot of the available moves you can make are dependant on stack sizes of you and your opponents in the pot in relation to the blinds. I usually play pretty straightforward with over 20bb's with the exception of some blind steals in late position, or taking stabs at some pots. Under 10bb i'm looking to get all my money in preflop either with what I believe to be the best hand or If i think I have some fold equity when i'm a little shorter 7 or less. When I have between 11-20 blinds, i'm still waiting for good hands, but one adjustment I like to make is to look for some resteal opportunities out of the blinds. If you have been at the same table for a while you will start to notice which players are habitually stealing your blinds in late position, I usually will let them get away with it a few times before they make it obvious and i repop them, with any hand that has chemistry ,and win all the blinds they took from me back with interest. Ideally you want to make this move against people who don't have a short stack or a very large stack, someone that has enough chips to fold and still preserve a decent stacksize, but you want your stacksize to be large enough that if he calls and loses he will be out,crippled, or take a serious hit. I'm usually more willing to make this kind of move if the preflop raisers bet makes the pot size greater than 20% of my remaining stack, if the pot is less than that it may not be worth it from a risk/reward standpoint. Make sure he's not pot commited either to call, the larger the preflop raise in relation to his stack size, the less fold equity you will have.
I know there's kinda a lot of criteria in this, but I think you will find quite a few situations down the road where you can use it to exploit the blind stealers tendancies and earn chips. This move is not a magic bullet but just something you can add to your arsenal to open up your game some.

25-30% of flops seen is way to much in my opinion try cutting it down a bit

it depends how u play and how advanced u are about the flop %. I play beginning of tournys and ill play a lot of hands or none depending on the cards but mainly on the other players at the table. If they let you run them over RUN THEM OVER, dont sit there and still wait for a hand.


I think you'll just have to wait and show in later rounds that you can be aggressive and do be afraid to put some tight player trying to make a move on you back in place with a big reraise. Really pay attention next time and dont check your email or look at porn or whatever just focus on the other players and you'll notice you will be able to tell when to make a move or not alot easier than you would if your checking your mail and such.