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So I have been playing mostly monster stack tournaments and usually I make it to the top 100. Top 20 if I am lucky. I have observed a handful of reraising in the early stages and later on, play gets tighter. I usually play in position here and play premium hands and pocket pairs in any position. Late position I tend to play more hands.

Do you believe this is a good strategy for me? Is there anything I can add on top of what I have been doing to get far in monster stack tournaments?
 
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Do not let yourself eat from the blind
 
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TheSeaWizard said:
So I have been playing mostly monster stack tournaments and usually I make it to the top 100. Top 20 if I am lucky. I have observed a handful of reraising in the early stages and later on, play gets tighter. I usually play in position here and play premium hands and pocket pairs in any position. Late position I tend to play more hands.

Do you believe this is a good strategy for me? Is there anything I can add on top of what I have been doing to get far in monster stack tournaments?
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Just curious, where are you playing these monster stack tournaments? Also, how many people usually start in each one? Seems like you can't go wrong playing tight when very deep stacked as you can pick your shots over time.
 
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nunch92 said:
Just curious, where are you playing these monster stack tournaments? Also, how many people usually start in each one? Seems like you can't go wrong playing tight when very deep stacked as you can pick your shots over time.
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ignition Casino Poker. It usually starts with 60-ish players registered then it climbs up to 800 players. Everyone starts with 15,000 chips. I usually register around the beginning then later on as I have a gigantic stack, there's lots of late registrations and players try to catch up sometimes waiting for Aces or Kings.
 
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You should listen your own voice, being playing only with rules everybody can guess your hand
 
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i like these and play almost id to you and im about break even. only thing i hate are the insane late regs. 3-5 blind levels is enough. i get they want to increase the pool but more than 30 min. is just too freaking much
 
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yeah rebuys

marcumx said:
i like these and play almost id to you and im about break even. only thing i hate are the insane late regs. 3-5 blind levels is enough. i get they want to increase the pool but more than 30 min. is just too freaking much
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dont like 888 pokers 90 min worth of rebuys drive me insane to sit beside a guy that goes allin every hand and just rebuys
 
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If you are going that deep all the time you are doing something right. Just make sure you dont play to tight to late in the tourney.

I agree that the rebuy periods are way to long. I hate seeing them to be honest.
 
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UNE_Aces said:
You should listen your own voice, being playing only with rules everybody can guess your hand
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I agree with the "listen to your own voice" thing but can you explain what you mean by "playing only with rules?"
 
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TheSeaWizard said:
So I have been playing mostly monster stack tournaments and usually I make it to the top 100. Top 20 if I am lucky. I have observed a handful of reraising in the early stages and later on, play gets tighter. I usually play in position here and play premium hands and pocket pairs in any position. Late position I tend to play more hands.

Do you believe this is a good strategy for me? Is there anything I can add on top of what I have been doing to get far in monster stack tournaments?
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I tend to play a little more aggressively in the early stages of monster stack tourneys when the blinds are cheap. I think it's a good strategy to build a good chip stack for the later stages. You'd be surprised how many times you can cooler guys with big hands with your suited connectors and marginal holdings without risking a lot of BB's. I've made it pretty deep using this strategy in these types of tourney's, albeit with buy ins under 1000 dollars.
 
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