Pacing yourself in a tournament

Unlike cash games where I can come and go as as I please or can even switch tables. I feel really difficult to keep from draining myself mentally during a tournament where I am "stuck" for X amount of hours.

Which advice is best.
1) Have an account with someone so we can "tag team"
2) Just play one table SnGs and avoid MTT
3) Play superturbo where blinds go up every one minute.
4) Go all-in every single hand.

What is the longest length of tournament you played in?

1) Doing so is against the TOS of a site and will get your account banned
2) Yes
3) If you know how to play short stacks in tournaments
4) Just don't play in the first place instead?

Longest one I've played is probably 10 hours or so

The time invested can get anoying sometimes (especially if you go out close to the money), but I don't think there's a better feeling than running deep in a big tourny.

Is this on the level? Tag teaming is not only against TOS, but extremely unethical.

Not only will it get your account banned, but your funds seized as well.
It still surprises me how many people are so unaware of the TOS of poker sites. I mean if your willing to give them your credit card/ bank account info, wouldn't you think it is a good idea to know the rules? I'm gonna create a site and in the TOS it is gonna say, "By depositing on this site you will forfeit all current and future moneys you earn in your lifetime to me Vfranks." I'll be rich in no time!! LoL.. jk.

If you can't sit for hours through a MTT, than yes, STT or Super Turbos could be a good idea for you. Going all-in every hand is just a bad idea, and probably a sign that you could be on tilt. Find a game you enjoy playing and stick with it, you don't absolutely have to play in long MTT's to be a good player. Some people play cash games, some STT's, and some people MTT's, and some people play all of them. Also you could try 45-180 person SnG's which are kinda like a MTT without a HUGE playing field to go through, or try a less populated poker site where there are smaller playing fields in tourneys. Hope that helps.

Whose advice is that?????
1. Simply bad anyway you look at it.
2. Sure if you are comfortable with these games
3. See #2
4. See #1

MTTs can last all lenghts of time, depending on the entrants. 100 can go 3+ hours (can be +-1 hours or more) large MTTs can be 9-10 hours, or perhaps much longer. a 4500 entrant will be as different from a 400 as it will a 10,000.

Too long. Probably that ridiculous structured deepstacked marathon on PokerStars. That is one sick game & am amazed that some players play it more than once! (I think it was ~7hrs. til it pops the money bubble). Not sure where it is in the lobby but if you've played it you'll KNOW the one I'm referring to.
Longest length of time 'playing tourneys' (not just one inparticular).. probably 20hr. session online.

dlam, I've got a feeling (call it intuition or whatever) that you'll learn a fair bit here on the CC site.

When you limit the size of the fields you play in and the ammount of players you play against, I think you are limiting a lot of the experience and education you would acquire if you didn't limit yourself. If you really feel like you are "stuck" in these longer tourneys, it will be hard for you to succeed with that limiting mentality.

I have just recently switched most of my tourney play from Bodog to PokerStars. I played on Bodog for about 5 years. When I started playing, I played at Bodog, FT and PS equally. But after about six months of bouncing from room to room, I switched to Bodog and played mainly at Bodog for the past five years. I switched to Bodog fulltime because the competition was considered soft in all the poker room reviews I read and the fields were much smaller, usually less than 200ppl (except for the $100K tourney on Sunday which still only seats less than 700 ppl). I do intend to contunue playing in their $100K on Sundays. These non-Sunday tourneys would end in 3.5 hours or less.

Do you know what I discovered? The competition WAS softer....The tournaments DID end sooner. So while I did cash in and win more than my fair share of tourneys, I really think I was spinning my wheels and my game became stagnant because of it.

Now, most of the tourneys I play at PokerStars seat 2000 ppl or more. I just now(after five hours and fourteen minutes), finished 106th(for $135) in a field of almost 3100ppl in a $10 rebuy tourney (where I never rebought although I did addon).

My point is.....I used to feel the same way you do. But now, I think that when you increase the size of the field, the skill level of your opponents increases comparably if not maybe exponentially. I really feel that accepting the challenge of the larger fields and longer playing times has improved my game and increased my confidence dramatically.

I hope that maybe I was able to help.


Sincerely,
FITEMAN

I prefer (2). You can also try (3) if you are comfortable with blinds going up very fast and a very short stack. (1) is against the rules and I've never understood the reasoning behind (4).

Stick with STT's - none of the other options are going to do you much good.

I suppose if time is the problem then a single table SnG is the answer. Not only will it reduce the amount of time you spend but it will also give you valuable 'final table' experience which can only be a good thing. Alternatively, a 90-man or 180-man SnG could give you the best of both worlds, a bit of tourney play and final stage conditions too. That way it's hopefully not over too quickly but it doesn't take all day either.