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Unlike cash games, where the constant TAG strategy is driven up to holes, in the tournament game you need to add some creativity, and play hands slightly outside the standard tight lines. This is not a reason to play loose and aggressive, but one of the most important ideas that needs to be understood is that chip building (stack formation) is the key to surviving in a tournament, especially unlimited.


Very often, it's easy to play tight and knock players out of the hand at an early stage, because weak players look at bets not on pot or other bets, but on their own stack. These players will slowly lose their chips at an early stage, and you naturally need to use it. The way to do this is to make a value payment.


A hand like JTs is considered marginal. At the tournament, in the right situation, JTs and other suited connectors can be very strong due to the large implied value. Very advantageous situation when you are in late position with a speculative hand or draw with a pile of loose limpers in the hand. It is advantageous because, due to the position, you can play such a hand, relying on odds. In addition, you can "attack from different angles," not playing on odds, but adding fold equity, playing aggressively.

The main point here is that you masquerade your hand using fold equity. If your opponent does not believe that you have a hand, then he will pay you well if the draw reaches. He will not be able to read and correctly assess the strength of your hand. Thus, a mathematical, seemingly error, can be very beneficial, given the implied value.


Players familiar with the basics of poker will very often make a mistake in tournaments, which is not a mistake in cash games. They will be too patient.

In the cache, the main idea (especially on small limits) is to wait for a good hand, a good flop, a bad opponent and cut down the dough. Just like 1-2-3. At the tournament you do not have enough time to wait for a good hand. This is a dilemma for TAG players and they begin to rave about, complaining about the flow of bad cards and the inability to win sweat. The tournament player should abandon such thinking and most "go to the mountain." That's why aggression is a winning strategy.
 
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You make some very good points. My motto is "fortune favors the bold".
 
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In MTT, the aggressive style of the game is not always the key to success.Often tight players win tournaments.
 
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It all depends on the stage of the game, most likely.

And on the value of the stack
 
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An agressive style is definitely the most profitable to play, but also the toughest to play!
 
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Very nice post. I totally agree with you. I was playing also tight in MTT s and I was making very few final tables. I have never seen myself shoving T8o in the right situation:)))
 
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It depends on many factors, the stack, the entry money, your position, the size of the blinds, the number of players, the length of late registration.
 
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of course, there are many factors, and all of them should be tried in the game.
 
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In MTT, the aggressive style of the game is not always the key to success.Often tight players win tournaments.
That's right, but sometimes a person is just lucky and he raises his stack well, but then he loses anyway!
 
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It depends on many factors, the stack, the entry money, your position, the size of the blinds, the number of players, the length of late registration.


Of course it is.
Without these moments, it's impossible to play!


:)
 
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There are many factors that must be taken into account, as some people have already said, but also that the player must have a clear strategy and be very good at applying them and have a lot of wisdom when making bets
 
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I am not a good player, I am more to regulate weak, I know a little of the game, but when I come across an unusual situation I end up not knowing how to react and interplete wrong, or I can not show the image that I want.

Among the strategies I adopt in my game I usually adptar the various situations and try to change my game as needed.

I have already won, but this are not constant, and I end up losing in situations that I should be able to avoid, so every day I try to learn more about the game, I pay attention to situations. One of the biggest defects to my game is the lack of proper place and time to play with dedication.
 
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