becoming a MTT regular - tips needed

Okay after playing cash and tournament poker I've come to realize that I'm a tourney player than a cash game player.

Considering the above, how do I formally start learning Tournament poker?

Do I just register for everyday 3 MTTs and play at micro stakes?

Need a solid way of becoming a MTT specialist.

There are lots of things you can do, try freerolls in the beginning if you want, or just play micro mtt's. Besides that you can learn a lot by watching pro's play mtt's - you can find videos' online, read a book and stay up to date with strategies - i would suggest "The Raiser's Edge" by Elky.

You can analyze your game and try to improve, try posting hands here at cardschat that you want to know more about how to play them better. So yeah these are a few ideas.:goodnight

Definitely start reading tournament strategy books, and look into some online training sites to improve your game. A HUD can be semi useful in tourneys as well.

Got to aggree with the replies above. Never wanted to be a cah game player only mtt's and s&g's.
Freerolls are a good way of being introduced if you can get past all the crappy play and learn what good starting hands are.
If you already have a bankroll, than try the larger s&g's, fewrew players but because of the buy-in, the quality of poker is slightly better.
Once you have mastered the basics, try out the bigger tourneys (meaning tourney size not buy-in).
Most importantly, enjoy the ride, good luck.

Well, first you should read some strategy book about tourney
i have a lot of book ~3-40 files (all type like cash/tourney, ohama /horse, etc), if u want it u can pm via inbox me, i'll send to you
I think u don't need to play in freeroll because u'll waste your time on that
The prize pool is too low and that tourney have too much fish, u'll out of that tourney by some shit hand like 82o or smt, u can't learn anything from that shiet.
You can start play some micro mtt's and try to next level if you feel you can beat it.
Sr for my bad English but i hope u will understand what i try to explain

it's good that you've come to the realization that you're an mtt player more so than an online cash game player. i'm the same way. i still haven't figured out the online cash game yet. as for mtts, you can certainly read books and go thru forums, but i'd say the best way is to play some microstakes. i'd start with reg mtts and not turbos. just be aware than any mtts <$11 (maybe $5-6) will be very fishy tournaments especially for the first couple hours. your initial goal is to make the money consistently.

I suggest start with micro mtt's (0.55/1.10/2.20/3.30 - these are best if you are beginner), of course you could get little experience in freerolls, but there opponents plays little different.

sj_pi said:

Okay after playing cash and tournament poker I've come to realize that I'm a tourney player than a cash game player.

Considering the above, how do I formally start learning Tournament poker?

Do I just register for everyday 3 MTTs and play at micro stakes?

Need a solid way of becoming a MTT specialist.

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If you have not started to learn MTT/SNG yet, I don't think you really know whether you fit tournaments more or not.

Just watch videos and read books about both MTT and cash game. You can make up your mind after you can beat both games.

Solid advice here already.

Best thing IMO would be for you to become an active, contributing member of CardsChat so that you can join us in our private freerolls. While these are freerolls, the field is tough and these are a great way for you to shape up your play, without risk.

CardsChat League (down the road) would be another recommendation I would make.

As for study, Gripsed has a lot of great online videos on this subject.

The book which helped me the most in my tournament play was "Kill Everyone".

Good luck, sir

BearPlay said:

Solid advice here already.

Best thing IMO would be for you to become an active, contributing member of CardsChat so that you can join us in our private freerolls. While these are freerolls, the field is tough and these are a great way for you to shape up your play, without risk.

CardsChat League (down the road) would be another recommendation I would make.

As for study, Gripsed has a lot of great online videos on this subject.

The book which helped me the most in my tournament play was "Kill Everyone".

Good luck, sir

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free rolls and league isn't the way to go if you want to become a reg, join a training site, participate on its forums, find a group of mtt regs who are about or slightly above your level and want to improve and start doing some HH reviews and learn a nash chart. work out how to solve a EV calc and start with opening and r/f r/c ranges and shoving nash to begin with. after this look at post flop and work on hand reading, bunch of different sites out there but RIO is the cheapest at $10 for essential member, TPE is more but is tournament focussed. haven't been on any others to recommend one way or another. social capital is uber important in improving in poker.

duggs said:

free rolls and league isn't the way to go if you want to become a reg, join a training site, participate on its forums, find a group of mtt regs who are about or slightly above your level and want to improve and start doing some HH reviews and learn a nash chart. work out how to solve a EV calc and start with opening and r/f r/c ranges and shoving nash to begin with. after this look at post flop and work on hand reading, bunch of different sites out there but RIO is the cheapest at $10 for essential member, TPE is more but is tournament focussed. haven't been on any others to recommend one way or another. social capital is uber important in improving in poker.

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If you want to fast track your improvement, read and read theories/strategies couple it with play/practice.

start with reading CC Strategy Articles, on top of the page.
Try to be more active in our forum and join freeroll club.

Try to build some BR from freerolls, and at begining start playing tight and double up on top hands, then you can expect to finish ITM in almost any MTT.

Anyway, I wish you good luck.

Dont forget BRM; spend no more than 2% of yr bankroll on any one entry.... otherwise a cooler can bust you... :dancing:

Small advice : for a start, don't play rebuy tourney, or (hyper)turbo's.

Dont play hyperturbos , rebuys or even turbos.

Pick regular speed tournaments with a decent starting stack of 3000 or above and manageable player pools with about 2k-3k people on them , dont play against 8k+ player pools.

For books and strategy i suggest that you read every book because mtt doesnt differ too much from cash games , you have to deal with postflop decisions and preflop decisions aswelll , mtt mix all forms of poker in 1 therefore you have to be good all around player to do well on them.

Best books are probably: raiser edge , secret of proffesional tournament poker , kill everyone , poker tournament formula 1,2.

Other books non-mtt oriented but still great: crushing the microstakes , dynamic full ring poker , analytic poker holdem.

Thank you for the great responses.

What is RIO with the $10 membership?
I googled and got Rio Las Vegas website and related results.

Sorry I'm new to this and my question may sound silly.

Run It Once, phil galfonds training site

They are a bit different from the CG.
The web is full load of strategy stuff. Better start from there instead from a book cuz it is much more dynamic than a book: y choose, select, change, discard contents-
Then y may buy a book, as weel.
Not saying books are a waste- Absolutely- I love them- But objectively web contents >>>>>>>>>>> books's.

If y want, y might join our new MTTer official thread:
https://www.cardschat.com/forum/tournament-poker-59/official-mtt-reg-thread-246833/
here y can exchange opinions, thinking processes, hands history, ect etc.
and of course askk advice: plz JUST improve your BASIC KNOWLEDGE and then come.

Hope it helps

Brm is very important.You could start playing with low buyin micro tourney and move on from there.