tips on holdin on to your chipstack

hey all i was hopin for some tips on holdin on to your chipstack. ive been doin good in the beginning of a tournament and then i seem to lose it later on. maybe its bad luck or iono. i get alotta bad beats wen im up

idont play alotta hands either

If you win more chips, its easier to hold onto them.

We need more info to better help you. Post some HH so we can see what you may or may not be doing wrong. In most cases the FOLD button can be ur best friend here. Play smart you worked hard to get ur stack now work hard to keep it.

I agree, we need more info. How big is your stack in comparison to the blinds, the other player stacks and the overall chip count. This info may aid us in providing your feedback. And are you at the final table and in the money?

like should you play even lesser hands or more hands or only the good hands. cuz wen i have a large chip stack and i play xtra tight and only play good hands i tend to lose mayb theres nothing ican do about that but like should i play a little looser hopefully get lucky back on them foos cuz they be gettin lucky on me so many times. or is it jusst how these poker sites are where wen your up they end up riggi you to lose some back?

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I find a good grip with my right index finger & right thumb usually does the trick.

early tournament play tight aggressive, loosen up as the blinds rise and antes are introduced!

I would still play the top 7 hands (AQ and up) ion early position. In middle position open up to top 25 (PP 8s and up and hands with K and A) In late position you can open it up to the top 35 hands such as any 20 hand or any PP
Look me up at intertops. that is my user name. I play mostly 50/1 9 person ring tables.

Well I am still trying to learn tourny play, but

Tight is right early on, lots of fish go all-in with 33 or AJ, don't get suckered in the early rounds without AA or KK unless all fold to all in EPR, then JJ and QQ is ok to call them, I still think AK is drawing hand and not really favorite to 33.

Watch your opponents, can't be said enough about this, what did they go all in with, what did they call raise to, etc. Information is sooo valuable, every hand should tell you something.

Patience! especially in early rounds, the later it gets the more of a coin flip it becomes.

yea i feel like i gotta push around people with my chip stack later on in the tourney because blinds get bigger..if i play too tight and dont get cards i gotta start bluffing. or i start to lose my chipstack. iono sounds like a bad thing to do. but wat do you do wen you dont get good cards to call and blinds are like high

huh, I usually am a middle to low stack later in a MTT so on the otherside I have to feel I need to go all in with marginal (KJ, A8) hands or get sucked out, I think (and ask those who know better) that when you have an all-in covered by 4x then call with AJ, KQ or AT when there isn't any action before and you have position.

I really don't like tournys so much because there is a lot of coin-flip play that you have to make to stay alive. Cash games all the way for me.

wen you play cash games wen do you choose to leave the table? wen you doubled up wen u get tired or what just wondering. i be up alotta times but i dont knwo wen to leave..than the table deals me AA somebody else KK and they go all in preflop of course i gotta call and i get cracked lose everything..thats prolly irrelevant but maybe i shoulda pulled out earlier.
just wondering wen i should leave a table to stay bankroll positive.

Yeah cash games are an "ongoing" ordeal, some ppl say play a set time, number of hands, winnings... it's up to you, I (personally) think that you have to set your standard. Up 100% buy-in, 200 Hands, whatever. I sort of play "if I'm up +100% buy in then I leave after a set number of hands" in my head. Usually I stay too long and lose most of it back. Otherwise I'm down X% and say to myself if I can just make a little back then I'll leave, and I do then I stay saying to myself "OK one more big win and I'll leave".

I really can't tell you, sorry. Knowing you are better than everyone else at the table may make you want to stay even though you are currently down. Maybe a winning player always quits once he (or she) is up 10% of buyin, everyone can get there unless they are really bad or on a really bad run. That would be a slow way to profit, say $5 buy-in and $0.50 profit each session, but you would be a "winning" player. It's up to you to decide, set a goal and STICK TO IT! Whether it's hands, time or money.

If your like me, you go into self defeating mode. You build up a nice stack, with good play and then suddenly you have a nice stack. I sometimes (well lots of times) opening up my range too wide then. I find I start limping if more people limp into a pot I should of never gotten in to start with. And then there is me, I build a stack, then I get worried Im gonna lose it and thats wht usually happens. I guess what Im trying to say is once i build this stack, I start wasting or bleeding chips too quick. and dont forget the obvious, sometime those quick chip dont build as easy when your close to ITM and esp final table then they do when you their are 50-500 people starting out in the beginning. I always find it amazing that once you get deep how much harder the play becomes and really thats when the game begins

In cash games, you leave the table whenever you wantzzzz...lol

If it is full of decent regs, leave. If it is full of tight players, leave. If you are tired or tilted leave.

If there is at least one fish with a decent stack, dont leave.

When

I think you are talking about intertops FPP (frequent player points). Yes. They come when you make a deposit. and then you get points back equal to the rake of each pot. That is why you need to play at the 50/1 limit (or higher) with 9 players. that way the pots are bigger and worth more even in hands that you are not in. in about 4 hours of play you will have enough points to earn you a gold chip and $5 cash back.