What you think about this strategy

Do you think it makes sense to collect the necessary number of chips in the mmt tournament in order to get into the prize zone, and then immediately go to a sit out, until the moment when prize zone comes? In other words, hero builds a large stack and goes into a sit out, until that moment when he gets into the prizes, and only then continues the game. What do you think of this strategy?

No no and one more time no.

its somewhat a common strategy just not the optimal one imo

You will lose the opportunity to increase your stack.

I do not think it's a good strategy, the best you can do is be more careful in the bubble, especially players who have more chips than you.

Yes and no. I think once you have a sizeable chip stack. I don’t get involved with many hands and let the short stacks battle it out. You sense who to take advantage of but don’t sit out entirely

bad strategy.
in addition, in some rooms there are rules about such situations for which they can be punished

As others have stated probably not the best strategy. Your stack may be large now, but the blinds increase as well as other players stacks. The goal is to to ship the tourney and sitting out I think is more like min cash.

The exception to the rule might be if this is some satellite where the top fifty all get a ticket into a higher buy in tourney. Then it doesn’t matter if you have 1 chip or a million. You just need to get itm

Tenek26 said:

Do you think it makes sense to collect the necessary number of chips in the mmt tournament in order to get into the prize zone, and then immediately go to a sit out, until the moment when prize zone comes? In other words, hero builds a large stack and goes into a sit out, until that moment when he gets into the prizes, and only then continues the game. What do you think of this strategy?

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Save yourself a lot of time if you just stop playing.

Respect to game

nera75 said:

No no and one more time no.

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I agree. This is not just bad strategy also not respectful to the game. I would like to see all hands and keep concentrated. At the end of the day I play since I enjoy the game

Bad strategy, if from the beginning of the tournament to go to the sitout, the blinds are now growing rapidly in tournaments, registration lasts a long time, so the blinds will eat your stack. If at the end of registration to enter the tournament, because of the high blinds you will have a short stack, with so certainly not up to the sitout )))

I join the opinion of everyone that this is a bad strategy. When you play to get a ticket, it’s possible, but in this case, you can just go deeply waiting for the best card.

Kenzie 96 said:

Save yourself a lot of time if you just stop playing.

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It's not about saving time, but of wanting to avoid coolers before the prize zone, reducing the effect of dispersion due to a decrease in the number of hands played in big mtt with large field.

So you sit out and when the money bubble comes you have blinded away to a short stack and face a tough battle to make more money?

No.

Since you call this a "strategy", have you done the math on a sample of tournaments to see what you would earn? With variance (you still need to build a large stack) and the blinding away I'm pretty sure you'd lose money in the long run.

This is not a strategy this is a wasting of time.

it could be a good strategy in tickets prize tourneys, lets say the tournamen offer 30 same value ticket as prize you are the chip leader by a huge stack and still 35 players to go , you can then retain yourself from playing by sitting out , Enjoy your ticket

Vallet said:

You can earn a big stack and mind your own business. I got to the final table so many times. In other cases, you lose JJ vs QQ or KK vs AA. Such clashes are inevitable.

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Hey, this is exactly what I said. During the game in MTT I often had a very large stack, and if I just went into the sit out, I would be able to reach the prize area and continue the game with a short / medium stack of 20-30bb, but I continued play and as a result i have cooler, and left the tournament without even getting my initial buy-in.

Well once you sit back in close to the bubble, there's no guarantee that you're gonna continue to chip up. Due to increasing blinds, your large stack won't be so large anymore once the bubble pops. In the end, you're missing opportunities and value from spots you should be taking. It's just a way too cautious strategy imo.

whatever floats your boat
I don't sit out, I wait for premium hands and don't involved
when I don't need to.

It's better to keep playing but not to commit too many chips unless you have the nuts. All-ins preflop even with AA can lead to disaster.

I particularly don't like to lose the momentum when I'm fine, but at the same time it can also be a good strategy against the tilt caused by a good tournament phase.

thats good if u not thinking about win tournament. Sure may be ull win, but % to win going down (imho)

I will not refer to this style of playing as a Strategy. Either you enjoy playing poker or not. Merely sitting out once you have build up your stack is not a good play style. You should think about playing double up sit and go then.

one of the worst ideas i came along in a while.
If you are serious About it, you better stop playing tournaments and start playing cash game where you make a min buy-in, double up and cash out.


min cashing in MTTs is kinda worthless, the final table is where the big Money lies and you won't get there if you miss some chances to increase your stack because you 'sit out to get ITM'.


Seriously, if you Play like that, you will be broke soonish