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AceZWylD

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I played in my first couple of deep stack tourney's about a week ago, and I loved them. But now, I need some help with a basic strategy and approach to these tournies. I have cashed in both event's that I played in, but if was for only a modest gain. I think I am playing too passive early and finding myself short stacked mid and late, which makes me take more un-necessary risks earlier than necessary. Any advice would be helpful.
 
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playing deep stacks tourneys...

hello mates!

the deep stacks tournaments are my favourite, but they also involve a lot of concentration and good skills based on experience.
personnally i start my tournament by limping in any hand. if someone raise and i have sh.t, so i fold. but people will give you the opportunity to see many flops. if you hit, all good!... overwise FOLD.
it is very important to build a table image, this one will help to steal some interesting small pot.
stealing pot by playing the positions, late position preferencely.
when the blinds raise consequently (10% of your stack) then it becomes important to play the right cards and to fight your frustration. it seems hard to fold Qs or AK or other big hands, but you must be able to read your opponent and admit that your strong hand is behind.
this strategy helped me many times to reach the top 16 or final table.
inspired by daniel negreanou, i wish you good luck.

any comments and returns will be welcome.

merry christmas
 
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Deep stack is one of my favorite games, as it allows me to read my opponents well.Playing any hand in a deep stacked tournament involves post-flop skills such as "hand reading" and "pot control" buddy.
The fact that there are enough chips for u to bet means that the value of position is also increased. Position will enable u to see your opponent’s action before u decide on ur own – giving u a clearer indication of the hand u are up against.
So play patiently and and try to read ur opponents game with small bets...
And i have observed that with deep stacks and a slow blind structure the temptation for many players is to tighten up during the early stages and only play the very best hands. This is a potentially dangerous strategy for 2 reasons:
  1. When you do finally play a hand you may get no action.
  2. If you do get action it may well be from a hand that beats you, for example a small set against your aces after the flop.
So u need to balance your play by raising a number of hands from position mate. This will help disguise the times when you have a monster holding.
Hope this points helped u mate, and actually few of the points i mentioned here, i got them long back by serching from Wikipedia. Hope it helps u like it served me mate...
GOOD LUCK at the tables.
 
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The fact that there are enough chips for u to bet means that the value of position is also increased.


Key point, imo. In a DS tourney, you need to be strongly factoring your position into your hand selection.

You can afford to play loose from LP, but do not allow yourself to be drawn into playing a big pot with a mediocre hand from early or mid-position. Players acting after you have enough chips to make moves and, if they are aggressive, will be likely to force you to a difficult decision unless you have a hand which gives you real confidence.
 
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I think in an early stage it is not necessary to play aggressively because blinds threat of a start or loss of a greater part of a stack are small also does not justify risk. And the risk in any case will appear at a late stage and you either will increase a stack or will lose, but in it and there is all charm of poker
 
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play smaller pots and dont overvalue TPTK
 
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