How to get to the final table?

Hi all!
I had a good day yesterday i won around 27$
I play mostly Bigs 4.40 3.30 and 7.50 cuz in smaller ones i think people dont play how they suppose too many all ins on horrible hands and they beat me.
But my question is how to get to final table in this tournaments yesterday i finished 400th on 4.40$ and 92 in 3.30$
But whats your advice how to play when there are little players and they all have good stacks and you have about average stack? How to get to that FINAL TABLE!

You have playing the more expensive tournaments because you can not win on the cheap tournaments???
Then only one way out - to play premium hands and play very tightly

Sometime agressive sometimes passive,you must find right way which lead to good prizes.
Don't lose hope during the tournament,situation can be changed in 2 hands,so keep pushing!

play well and not make mistakes, well, luck does not hurt

The best advice I can give you is to play patiently and pick your spots. For most part play premium hands, read the table and adjust accordingly. Its a marathon not a sprint.

Also you may want to downgrade your the buy-in amounts, Id try 1.50-2.50 if I were you. That may help with the deep runs.

Be patient and wait. Dont give out too much information .. try to change your style.. I think players on that level observe more and notice more...

Patience is the key, and some luck of course

U need to prove your skills and learn poker strategy and math.gl))

Play tight the first 4 levels of the tournament almost always monsters hands after that play agressive with better range.

You did well to reach the money. So you passed the first test. The middle stages is the place where you need some luck. Often a coin flip would decide if you are going to beat the bubble or to make nice stack. You need experience from such tournaments. If you think that you didn't play well a hand or two, you may post it here or to discuss it with other players. The key is to play as best as possible in each hand. Sooner or later the luck will be with you and you will reach the final table, thanks to your improved agility. Just you need to do your homework every time when you are busted and have some doubts if you play well your hand or not..

Each tournament situation is influenced by how many big blinds you have and how your table is playing.

Don't freak out if you have less chips than your opponents, for the most part it really only takes a few hands to get back into it late in a tournament.

Knowing how to play a short stack will help you a lot. You can learn a lot by short-stacking in cash games or by practicing in sit-n-go tournaments.

You should have an idea of your opening range from each position at various stack depths (number of big blinds) and be able to adjust these ranges for tight/loose players behind you. There are many players that do not 3-bet without a monster and will fold 80-90% of their big blinds (the easiest raise-fold steal of your life).

Changing gears is going to be important as the blinds go up as well. Usually you will be playing tight, but you can mix in more steals against tight players and re-steal three-bets from loose players... if there are players who will aggressively play back at you, use more value hands.

The deeper you get in a tournament, generally, the remaining players will have a higher skill level. To consistently do well, you will need to differentiate yourself by making plays to pick up chips in spots they would not (or by not losing as many chips as they would).

When you run good and get a big stack you can start to apply pressure and secure your spot at the final table as others hope to hold on and move up the payout ladder. With enough practice you will get better and better at this and should make plenty of final tables if you play a high volume of tournaments.

So I guess my general advice is to study push/fold charts and/or ICM Nash Equilibrium (what percentage of hands you can profitably open-shove off your chip stack given the other stacks at your table and the tournament payouts). Also just playing a lot of tournaments and watching Twitch tournament streamers will help you get experience.

Good luck at tables!

Patience + Luck.

Sometimes you simply don't have cards and you can't bluff every-time.

A lot of patience will make you to the top and get good cards

You need to win flips, and be able to run bluff without getting caught

As a player who have ran deep in several of theese during december, aswell as january (so far) I can tell you patience is a virtue. I will try to elaborate on this once I get home.

try not to play every hands and wait for the right moment to double up your stack .

Make your own luck, know your opponents observe their behavior, know when to fold a good hand and when the others are trying to steal the pot, also keep calm after the bubble most of the players tend to make bad beats, you have to wait to the perfect moment.

Jonathan Little has written a good series of books on tournament play.

Doug's advice is spot on

"Each tournament situation is influenced by how many big blinds you have and how your table is playing.

Don't freak out if you have less chips than your opponents, for the most part it really only takes a few hands to get back into it late in a tournament.

Knowing how to play a short stack will help you a lot. You can learn a lot by short-stacking in cash games or by practicing in sit-n-go tournaments.

You should have an idea of your opening range from each position at various stack depths (number of big blinds) and be able to adjust these ranges for tight/loose players behind you. There are many players that do not 3-bet without a monster and will fold 80-90% of their big blinds (the easiest raise-fold steal of your life).

Changing gears is going to be important as the blinds go up as well. Usually you will be playing tight, but you can mix in more steals against tight players and re-steal three-bets from loose players... if there are players who will aggressively play back at you, use more value hands.

The deeper you get in a tournament, generally, the remaining players will have a higher skill level. To consistently do well, you will need to differentiate yourself by making plays to pick up chips in spots they would not (or by not losing as many chips as they would).

When you run good and get a big stack you can start to apply pressure and secure your spot at the final table as others hope to hold on and move up the payout ladder. With enough practice you will get better and better at this and should make plenty of final tables if you play a high volume of tournaments.

So I guess my general advice is to study push/fold charts and/or ICM Nash Equilibrium (what percentage of hands you can profitably open-shove off your chip stack given the other stacks at your table and the tournament payouts). Also just playing a lot of tournaments and watching Twitch tournament streamers will help you get experience.

Good luck at tables! "

I would add, learn you opponents' styles and play them accordingly.

You also need to know when to steal pots to maintain your chip stack or you will blind off, very important as discussed by Doug.

A lot of luck is involved to final table frequently, going to have to survive flips, survive the bubble, survive the early wave of donks before The buy in period is over. While following push fold charts when u get under 10 blinds, figure out where the hole is in your game. You didn't really go into detail on whet u think is enreason u busted out of those tournaments where u did?

Hello friend, because in the little experience I have I can tell you that you must play to attack, not very often because there are players who almost always expect good hands to play and some will take advantage that your game is aggressive to try to trap you, so just do it on tables That you see that little look at the flop or dry tables in which you can take advantage of this and that your stack is growing so you do not see in periods after the bubble with few chips, and another advice I give you is that you play with a lot of patience Since to arrive at a final table you have to be aware of everything

Late tournament phase is an agressive phase. You cannot climb to fair place playing with tight strategy only. So, depending on table situation you have to have a wider range.

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Depends on the tournament time my friend, but oh well luck is needed. so you and I wont get to the ft easily

Late stage in every MTT - most important. Always !
I think, 1st rule there - not to be funky one, in right time.
Especially - if you have no huge stack. Be ready to flip there more often than you did it usually. Piece of risky play & piece of luck - that`s all what you need to reach the Final Table. Watch closer - to lobby : monitoring pay-jumps & average stack, feel the frontier - when you must to be `like a boss` ! Use all the time any of weak`s of your opponents & so on..

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Life is short one - so hurry up by every second !

This might not be much, but this is what helped me go from an MTT player that made frequent min cashes and few final tables to a player that started seeing more deeper runs and more frequent final tables.

paulsmall007 said:

A lot of luck is involved to final table frequently, going to have to survive flips, survive the bubble, survive the early wave of donks before The buy in period is over. While following push fold charts when u get under 10 blinds, figure out where the hole is in your game. You didn't really go into detail on whet u think is enreason u busted out of those tournaments where u did?

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Playful plays by the same type of structure and yes luck is a big part of the game