playing MTT in a successful way

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Hello everybody!

I would like to ask to share your point of view at these topic. What is in your opinion successful way of playing MTTs?
Well obviously there are (as minimum) two ways how you play it and both of them have pro & contra:
1) "tight is right" - some people say that's a great way of playing micro & low limit MTTs and freerolls. Playing not so many hands, but trying to win as much chips as possible, when you have a solid hand.
pro: you will get into the money pretty often, which is good for a spirit and motivation. It's easier to play post flop for not very experienced players.
contra: while you playing tight, it very luckily happens, that you don't have that big stack and blinds eating your stack out. So short after bubble, you have to gamble with a marginal hands just to survive in most cases. And it's really rare and hard to get at the final table.
2) "maniac's play" or in other words "i wanna be a captain!" - funny title and sounds like a crazy way of playing, but most of greatest professional players use that kind of play all the time. They start to be ultra loose & aggressive from the beginning on and either double/triple up the stack or drop out early in the tournament. If they got some luck and built up the stack, they do extremely pressure on the whole table ("being a captain of the table"), raising nearly every hand and stealing blinds. Keywords: "Always playing for the first place".
pro: Obviously, when you have a big stack it's easier to make a pressure on opponents and growing stack even more. Or even if you run against monster hand and loose, in that case you are loosing only a part of stack, but still stay in a tournament and able to fight. When you grew up a big stack, it's more likely you will get to the final table, where the most money are.
contra: You will be loosing just so many times at the beginning already, due such LAG kind of play and it can be really frustrating over time just loosing & loosing again. Being a successful maniac needs a lot of poker skills, cause you are most time with a worst hand post flop as an aggressor. Needs a lot of feeling of reading board and opponents.

So that's all i could remember about those both kinds of playing MTTs. Which would you choose and why? And of course if you see, that i forgot to mention something about one of the kind playing MTTs, please feel free to add.
In addition, i want to ask you, tell us please which kind of MTTs you are playing usually to and how often, just to have an overview of yours limits and field of game.

My own limits are 1$ till 5$, sometimes also freerolls, when i see that prize pool is big enough. I play not much of them, just like 2-5 tournaments per day. Most of my poker time i play SNGs.
And i tend more to play MTTs in a first way "tight is right". Well maybe because im just tend to play TAG at SNGs too, but also because playing maniac for me is too risky and im not used to. And honestly not dare, if i have invested some money into buy-in. Although i made already some experiments as a maniac at freerolls. Didn't helped much thought. But what have i expected, its a freeroll. Nobody cares. :)

Thanks in advance for all of your answers and opinions!
 
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Hello everybody!

I would like to ask to share your point of view at these topic. What is in your opinion successful way of playing MTTs?
Well obviously there are (as minimum) two ways how you play it and both of them have pro & contra:
1) "tight is right" - some people say that's a great way of playing micro & low limit MTTs and freerolls. Playing not so many hands, but trying to win as much chips as possible, when you have a solid hand.
pro: you will get into the money pretty often, which is good for a spirit and motivation. It's easier to play post flop for not very experienced players.
contra: while you playing tight, it very luckily happens, that you don't have that big stack and blinds eating your stack out. So short after bubble, you have to gamble with a marginal hands just to survive in most cases. And it's really rare and hard to get at the final table.
2) "maniac's play" or in other words "i wanna be a captain!" - funny title and sounds like a crazy way of playing, but most of greatest professional players use that kind of play all the time. They start to be ultra loose & aggressive from the beginning on and either double/triple up the stack or drop out early in the tournament. If they got some luck and built up the stack, they do extremely pressure on the whole table ("being a captain of the table"), raising nearly every hand and stealing blinds. Keywords: "Always playing for the first place".
pro: Obviously, when you have a big stack it's easier to make a pressure on opponents and growing stack even more. Or even if you run against monster hand and loose, in that case you are loosing only a part of stack, but still stay in a tournament and able to fight. When you grew up a big stack, it's more likely you will get to the final table, where the most money are.
contra: You will be loosing just so many times at the beginning already, due such LAG kind of play and it can be really frustrating over time just loosing & loosing again. Being a successful maniac needs a lot of poker skills, cause you are most time with a worst hand post flop as an aggressor. Needs a lot of feeling of reading board and opponents.

So that's all i could remember about those both kinds of playing MTTs. Which would you choose and why? And of course if you see, that i forgot to mention something about one of the kind playing MTTs, please feel free to add.
In addition, i want to ask you, tell us please which kind of MTTs you are playing usually to and how often, just to have an overview of yours limits and field of game.

My own limits are 1$ till 5$, sometimes also freerolls, when i see that prize pool is big enough. I play not much of them, just like 2-5 tournaments per day. Most of my poker time i play SNGs.
And i tend more to play MTTs in a first way "tight is right". Well maybe because im just tend to play TAG at SNGs too, but also because playing maniac for me is too risky and im not used to. And honestly not dare, if i have invested some money into buy-in. Although i made already some experiments as a maniac at freerolls. Didn't helped much thought. But what have i expected, its a freeroll. Nobody cares. :)

Thanks in advance for all of your answers and opinions!
There is no one way to play tournaments, if you play too tight, you may just make it ITM, If you play too loose, you'll be out before the money.

You have to bring Tight play and loose play in the game with you, and pick a style that works best in different situations.
 
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Yep. Must learn to change gears in MTTs. Most of the time playing the opposite way of the majority of the table will be "correct"

MTTs require mental toughness, patience, selective aggressiveness, fundamentals, and Luck!

good luck
 
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Yep. Must learn to change gears in MTTs. Most of the time playing the opposite way of the majority of the table will be "correct"

MTTs require mental toughness, patience, selective aggressiveness, fundamentals, and Luck!

good luck
I completely agree with this statement.
 
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Hello everybody!

I would like to ask to share your point of view at these topic. What is in your opinion successful way of playing MTTs?
Well obviously there are (as minimum) two ways how you play it and both of them have pro & contra:
1) "tight is right" - some people say that's a great way of playing micro & low limit MTTs and freerolls. Playing not so many hands, but trying to win as much chips as possible, when you have a solid hand.
pro: you will get into the money pretty often, which is good for a spirit and motivation. It's easier to play post flop for not very experienced players.
contra: while you playing tight, it very luckily happens, that you don't have that big stack and blinds eating your stack out. So short after bubble, you have to gamble with a marginal hands just to survive in most cases. And it's really rare and hard to get at the final table.
2) "maniac's play" or in other words "i wanna be a captain!" - funny title and sounds like a crazy way of playing, but most of greatest professional players use that kind of play all the time. They start to be ultra loose & aggressive from the beginning on and either double/triple up the stack or drop out early in the tournament. If they got some luck and built up the stack, they do extremely pressure on the whole table ("being a captain of the table"), raising nearly every hand and stealing blinds. Keywords: "Always playing for the first place".
pro: Obviously, when you have a big stack it's easier to make a pressure on opponents and growing stack even more. Or even if you run against monster hand and loose, in that case you are loosing only a part of stack, but still stay in a tournament and able to fight. When you grew up a big stack, it's more likely you will get to the final table, where the most money are.
contra: You will be loosing just so many times at the beginning already, due such LAG kind of play and it can be really frustrating over time just loosing & loosing again. Being a successful maniac needs a lot of poker skills, cause you are most time with a worst hand post flop as an aggressor. Needs a lot of feeling of reading board and opponents.

So that's all i could remember about those both kinds of playing MTTs. Which would you choose and why? And of course if you see, that i forgot to mention something about one of the kind playing MTTs, please feel free to add.
In addition, i want to ask you, tell us please which kind of MTTs you are playing usually to and how often, just to have an overview of yours limits and field of game.

My own limits are 1$ till 5$, sometimes also freerolls, when i see that prize pool is big enough. I play not much of them, just like 2-5 tournaments per day. Most of my poker time i play SNGs.
And i tend more to play MTTs in a first way "tight is right". Well maybe because im just tend to play TAG at SNGs too, but also because playing maniac for me is too risky and im not used to. And honestly not dare, if i have invested some money into buy-in. Although i made already some experiments as a maniac at freerolls. Didn't helped much thought. But what have i expected, its a freeroll. Nobody cares. :)

Thanks in advance for all of your answers and opinions!

I don't agree with yours pro and counters.
Not exatily that if you play tight you will get to ITM with low stack, and you won't play all the tournament tight, you will play in the early game tight and will opening your range as blinds will growing up.

Will making pressure in rights oponents and will building a health stack.

And man... you cant use the top players as example, because they play others limits with others oponents in others levels of mind, so they have a why to play loose, example how you can use for examplr one hand that have playing Phils Ivey, Negreanu, Antonio Esfandiar...

There is no way.... Think about that, and use as example people of your limits
 
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This is pretty legit I like most of the stuff you stated in this post
 
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There is no default way how to play mtts cause if u play ordinary u will never win and your opponnents just start to exploit u .Mtts are the most exiting and the hardest events in poker.
 
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