how to become an tournament winner constantly?

hundreds and thousands people entered one tournament,only dozens can win money.i think although it need skill,but the lucky play very important role in it.so i want to know?are there people who win tournament constantly?how can they do that?

You need to enter most MTTs with a solid strategy. When you stick to a strategy you have an advantage over most other players who are sticking to the cards or trying to double up early. The most prevalent strategy would be that of TAG early and looser later when closer to the money. Obviously that is very broad but there are many articles on this strategy that are easy to find.

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I believe you need a serious reading of all the good poker books.... definitely there is a strategy and skill required combined with a bit of luck

cjay142 said:

You need to enter most MTTs with a solid strategy. When you stick to a strategy you have an advantage over most other players who are sticking to the cards or trying to double up early. The most prevalent strategy would be that of TAG early and looser later when closer to the money. Obviously that is very broad but there are many articles on this strategy that are easy to find.

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I use the strategy you mentioned before.But I changed later.Because that always let have little stack when close to money.Now I am looking for a way that will let me enter the money with big stack.
If not big money then prefer no money.

I am one of the more successful MTT players here.

So far in 2009, I have won five MTTs outright (one of them joint first in a chop), had one second place, and two other final table finishes. That is from approximately 100 tournaments entered.

Whether you define that as winning "constantly" depends on your frame of reference. I think most experienced MTT players would think it a good win rate. I certainly feel that 2009 has been a good year for me so far.

However, if you look at it from another viewpoint, it is 8 successes and ~92 failures, which doesn`t seem very good. Members of my family who don`t understand poker think I must be crap at it, since I play often and win only occasionally.

The nature of MTTs is that you win when you play a solid game and when your cards hold up. You need both to come together on the same day to provide you with a win.

More often than not, you can play your "A" game and take a bad beat and crash out of the game. You need iron discipline and strength of purpose to hold your temper and play the exact same way the next day. If you let bad luck affect your play, you start on a downward spiral towards a place where you can never win.

Making a career out of online MTTs is not for the faint-hearted.

It takes a lot of hard work to win a tournament.

It doesn't happen overnight.

You have to practice, practice, practice.

Luck plays a big part,

but knowlegde of the game is the most important factor.

Without knowledge the luck is almost useless.

Playing different limit tournaments I released that to win more or less constantly you need to play the game that is comfortable for you. I mean buyins, tournament structure, number of players and so on.

I f you are comfortable playing some tournaments stich to them and keep develop your skills

is no`t so hard to get some money from a turney,but to win it is )yesterday in freeroll army in one hand i call 11k an all in with Ac7h of course the initial reriser had KK and i win with aces up so after the bluff skills you need to have a litlle skills ..to feel your cards,i don`t know how many called the 11k with those cardswhen you have like 27k chips Regards and GooD Luck At The Tables

PLAY GOOD POKER AND IN THE LONG RUN YOU WILL WIN. Tired of ppl complaining about badbeat after badbeat, this strategy that strategy, online is rigged live is better. Then they explain the hand about how they bet out and only min raised to "trap" and blah blah. The best Strategy for online is TIGHT SOLID. Doesnt mean wait for a hand and raise 2 or 3x bb. It means wait for a hand a raise 6xbb and shove on flop if it hits, I realized slowplaying and trapping are the cause for MOST badbeats you hear, I won money to throw around on .60c sngs to vary play and realized that people online are scared of REAL agression. After they see youre playing serious, then you can get fancy with bluffing and stealing pots and start dominating almost every hand, literally.

Egon Towst said:

I am one of the more successful MTT players here.

So far in 2009, I have won five MTTs outright (one of them joint first in a chop), had one second place, and two other final table finishes. That is from approximately 100 tournaments entered.

Whether you define that as winning "constantly" depends on your frame of reference. I think most experienced MTT players would think it a good win rate. I certainly feel that 2009 has been a good year for me so far.

However, if you look at it from another viewpoint, it is 8 successes and ~92 failures, which doesn`t seem very good. Members of my family who don`t understand poker think I must be crap at it, since I play often and win only occasionally.

The nature of MTTs is that you win when you play a solid game and when your cards hold up. You need both to come together on the same day to provide you with a win.

More often than not, you can play your "A" game and take a bad beat and crash out of the game. You need iron discipline and strength of purpose to hold your temper and play the exact same way the next day. If you let bad luck affect your play, you start on a downward spiral towards a place where you can never win.

Making a career out of online MTTs is not for the faint-hearted.

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So true Egon
That post will have to be a "you must read before playing tournament" sticky IMO as it really helps to know exactly how to prepare mentally a tournament and the realistic goals we need to have on tournaments ROI.

Discipline of play won't make you win all the tournaments but it will highly help you to provide a good ROI.

As an example I was blaming my TAG game for taking long series of non cashing or only small cashes (2 or 3 buy-ins), then trying to change my "starting style" to LAG only for ending losing more.

Then at the start of 2009, I've reconsidered things : have a plan before the start of the game, adapt it slightly depending on the reads you have on your opponents (very true concerning blinds stealing) but do not try to double up too soon unless you have a monster as it hasn't the same impact on your tournament at early stages as a big lost could have.
Then building slowly your stack in order to be able to be the "pressure guy" at the bubble and not the "under pressure" one to finish as a total LAG if you're lucky enough to be the big stack with 2-3 tables left. (LAG doesn't mean maniac )

I think I found a style of play that I'm comfortable with (as you can see in my current ROI and results for 2009 on FT at OPR) and that's the determinant point. The more you're comfortable with your playing style the more the decisions you will have to take will be easier.
Being able to easily lay down a very good hand like QQ because the action before you has lighten up the red alarm lamp in your brain and you know you're beat then seeing two big stack going all-in with KK and AA is IMO probably the best feeling you could have at a poker table. Cause you know you're playing the right game at the right moment and that this will probably lead you to the final table unless you get very cold cards all tourney along.

But the plan I give is the one I feel comfortable with, no needs to say that it isn't an universal plan that will makes all tournament player winning ones.
Each player has a different mentality : some will be able to throw 30-40 hands in a row even if he sees all others players at his table building big amount of chips and some just need to play a lot more hands as they know they have the post-flop quality play to do so and be smart enough to fold when the hand isn't good to play anymore.
Each player has his A-game.

Like I said having a plan before the start and adapting it all the tournament along is crucial.

And please don't let those silly bad beats make you think that you're not playing the right game. If you have made the good decision and been beaten only by runner runner or an ace on the river when all-in then it's part of the play and just take in count that you've made the right move.
Who knows next tourney you could be the bad beater

This question is very easy to answer if you have played poker for a while. If you can work your reads with your poker game, tournament poker is very easy to adept to if you can understand the basic concepts of poker. bad beats happen and you need to be able to give them and take them to play tournaments.

PYou must study poker skills books, look at LIVE poker sites.Luck is important too, mainly with early phase when donks you can eliminate very easy and have many chips for staying a long time and have a chance to Final table.

You can't win with luck alone.
As Phil Helmuth would say : If luck wasn't involved i would win every game.

LOL

I think its about having discipline, patience, self-control and a solid strategy.Hard to achieve these qualities though.

How To place constantly

You can definately place constantly if you know how to play. One time i played around 15 tournaments in one week, 3.30$ tournaments and two 15$ tournaments. I won 3 of them and placed in 7 besides the 3 wins. The largest one was 280 players and the smallest was 75 players. You have to play veryyy conservative and make hard lay downs. It is about surviving the tournament. Early in tournaments, you can take more risks since blinds are only 10/20 chips, but later in game, play as conservative as possible. It will benefit you