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At the beginning of the tournament, it is normal to play safely and with values, but if you're playing too fast tournaments, the best strategy to follow a number of chips?

Starting off tight is usually the way to go in low stakes poker. The blinds and pots are not worth the risk, and there are enough donkeys playing that will will not notice how tight you are being and will pay you off when you hit your good hands. Once you get into the middle phases of a tournament you can turn up the aggression with speculative hands when stack to blind ratios are lower, and you find out other players tendencies.

Each player chooses his own strategy. Watch a video on how different players play.

I agree that starting tournaments tight is the way to go. With low blinds and no antes you can afford to pick your spots early on . I also try to limp in with moderate hands in late position early which I will not do later.

I think you should expect good hands, and not spend chips in weak hands, so when you have a good hand you can win more chips, than if you had fwe chips.

Basically, select well as hands and play with value. What differentiates it is also the initial stack size and as blinds

play the strategy! if the tournament is turbocharged we play hands that start in the slow tournament on the ante offensive! and then very quickly go into push fold! where too it is enough to look in the table that for your opponent against you and make a decision!

Hi I think each player has its own way to go forward in a more cautious some other more aggressive tournament and other crazy

tiago ramos said:

At the beginning of the tournament, it is normal to play safely and with values, but if you're playing too fast tournaments, the best strategy to follow a number of chips?

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yes, tournament start is always important, doing crazy things is not always right, so playing with value is the best option, I'm very strict about it. tournaments hyper turbo turbo, I'm more loose playing with connected cards etc, but it's always good to play with value.

Early on there are a lot of donks and playing all kinds of junk. We all play different for the most part. I would play somewhat tight early and hope to double or trip or so with the donks who chase everything at these levels and hope to hit there miracles to donk you with.

At a final table there are 3 basic things to think about...stack sizes, the blinds, and the pay jumps (ICM). All 3 change as the tournament progresses and your strategy must change with them.

For example, when a big increase in the blinds is about to hit the smallest stacks may be in trouble....that's not the time to be aggressive with less than the best hands because the short stacks are likely to shove on you. Or. when the next pay jump is significant the middle stacks tend to play very tight hoping someone else will make a mistake and get taken out. That's when your aggression will pay off allowing you to steal the blinds and antes.

if the tournaments are very fast as you say, you should be more selective with the cards you play, to try not to risk or gamble unnecessarily, it is not worth entering a bet with very weak hands if you only lose chips, and so general in those types of tournaments you have to take risks if you do not have enough chips to continue

tiago ramos said:

At the beginning of the tournament, it is normal to play safely and with values, but if you're playing too fast tournaments, the best strategy to follow a number of chips?

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maybe so, but the strategy also depends on what other players on the table have

First of all try to read opponents on your table - what kind of tactics they use and make nots.
Accordingly, further try to build your game by coordinating your notes.

In a slow tournament, stick to the strategy of waiting, and in faster tournaments the range of hands is wider...

if you participate in a turbo tournament everything depends on your stack. The deeper or deeper the mat is, the more likely you are to risk stroking or waiting for good hands without jeopardizing their game. On the contrary, having a weak starting mat will force you to play with sometimes weak hands to stay in play. Personally in this configuration I always try to double my stack from the start by playing aggressive preflop.

At the beginning of the tournament, you play tight and you analyze your adeverssaire.
In my opinion you must not lose more than half of your initial stack, you play tight and at the same time aggressive, once you double and you build your stack you can then take the risk and expand your starting hand chart, on the fast tournaments you have to play very aggressive, steal the blind is important to build your stack and to build your stack to survive.

I believe it definitely depends on the type of tournament and the table draw. If you see someone playing loose and raising 5x-10x every hand, just be patient and bust them when you have the nuts. Mixing up your play is always good too. Playing the same every tournament can be too predictable. Sometimes you have to be that player that plays loose to start and convey that table image, then get paid later on when you have it.

at the start of a tournament I try to take a risk, but trying to take care of myself as much as I can, it's not worth losing all the chips at the start of a tournament, you can not always play safe, we know that no matter how safe we ​​try play sometimes the plays can fail, usually the slow tournaments I try to play more calm, there is more time, but in the fastest tournaments I play with a little more risk

Depends on the tournament , if it’s a standard one keep it tight

At the beginning of the tournament there are many weak players whose actions are unpredictable. Try not to enter the bank when many players go to all-in.

The higher the speed of the tournament so I usually stick to a wider range. The Gipper turbo tournament that I play very rarely, I prefer to follow a surprising number of chips. But I do not play with frankly garbage hands. My range is any connectors, any A, k8 + os ss. any pairs, q8 + os ss. j7 + ss