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adsthepro123

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Just wanted to know if anyone knew any good strategys for playing in big multi table tournaments, i play a lot of multi table tournaments and have read about a lot of strategies for the big tournaments, however in the long run none of them really seem to work, although i have had a lot of success in tournaments i want to be consistent
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there is a lot of strategies are there to help you, But i am saying my playing style. I will play more at multitable tournaments . and i will do play those very tight infact very very tight and wait for others to eliminate i will enter into the pot only with good hand but when the blinds are increased and at higher stacks i will play aggressively. this is the way i play.( my english is poor adjust it ty:)
 
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The way I play multitables tournaments, is to stay patient at the beginning... I try to know how each of others players play. If I found one player that make all-in or bluff often, i wait for a good hand, and i let him bet before me. I try to make growing my pot early in tournament, and then, i let others players to play for a while.
When i'm in the money, then I play more aggressively.
 
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Basic MTT strategy:
1. Tight early, get reads on players.
2. Try to stay in the middle of the field but don't push yourself, the cards will come.
3. In the middle of the tourney keep tight out of position and open up to a range of hands on the button and the cutoff providing you have a stack, I like to play a lot of suited cards and low pocket pairs from the button and CO, you can play them aggressively and passively, if you have a lot of limpers in the pots already, i'd limp too, if I'm the first in the pot I'd open up with a raise, if it does get to the flop I'll appear strong and I'll have a better idea of my opponent's hand.
4. Around the bubble play tightens up, take advantage of this, note who else is stealing around you, and who is playing super tight. Note the big stacks, medium, and small. Don't get into pots without good hands against the big and small, steal from the medium. Almost any position here is open to stealing except early position, from middle position on you can probably steal pretty well. Small stacks will fight from the blind so be careful who you raise into.
5. When you're ITM don't start playing junk and don't try and steal more, it will no longer work. The short stacks that squeaked by will start pushing with ace and king high, along with almost anything that you would consider raising with from the button with a stack (suited ace, suited king, suited connectors, low pairs.) call them down with good hands, AT+, 66+, don't play crap and hope they don't have anything. Even if they do come up with aces, they're still at risk if you're playing 66.
6. As the tournament dwindles down, everyone will be trying to consolidate chips for the final table, you'll see some tricky plays, some risky plays, and some stupid ones. Play will be looser, tighten up, don't expect to get away with a steal unless you have a good read on your opponent and their hand. Expect to be all in, probably multiple times unless you have a big stack.
7. If you make it to the final table, there are some good threads that you can find on here that can explain play there much better than I can. Check out the Golden Archive.

Good luck, these strategies and ideas are developed from my own play in tourneys such as the DD, I can't guarantee how successful they'll be in higher echelons of MTTs.
 
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The long run can be very very long in MTTs. As for the start of the tourney I'd play to your strengths. If your a good post flop player I'd take a lot of flops early when the blinds are low and donks are stacking off left and right. But if putting lots of chips at risk early isn't your strength I'd play a tighter strategy. The most important thing you got to worry about is your stack size compaired to the blinds. In a larger MTT you should try to stay above 50BBs at all times. IMO it's worth taking lots of risks to stay above this mark. As if you get to the bubble with +50BBs you really can start to open up and apply lots of pressure to lesser stacks just trying to cash.
 
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Only been playing the game about 3 months and try to keep it tight early on and hope to get a few good hands to keep me in the game. In later positions i might limp in and hope to hit the flop. I know the more skillful players usually end up in the later stages but how much do you reckon luck comes into it. I reckon 70/30 in favour of skill.
 
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I agree with cardplayer52 here, being consistant is very difficult as if you are playing large field stuff varience is just huge. The best thing to do is make sure your plays in individual hands are consistant rather than your results, so I mean as long as you are making correct decisions for the majority of your hands and your hand reading/assigning ranges is improving then you are doing the right thing.

At the end of the day often winning or having deep runs in big MTTs is all about winning your flips and you have no control over this. Just make sure the times when you have a decent stack entering the late stages of a MTT you do your upmost to close the tourney.
 
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An excellent book that discusses playing hands in big MTT is "Winning Poker Tournaments One Hand at a Time". I can't stress enough how much I love this book. Each player discusses play during the early, middle and late stages of the tournaments they play their hands and whether they have any knowledge of how their opponents play. It mentions things like having top pair, top kicker, betting into the caller and having the caller re-raise them substantially and how and why it's appropriate to fold. You might look into it.
 
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