How to make it to the money in tournaments

[scobido]

I advise you not to woo all your hands in which you have big books especially before entering the paid places, at least I do and in most cases I am successful.

 

[krezip]

have played and I have seen that I can not reach the monetary phase of the tournaments I try to play strong ranger hands plus the cards are not connecting. What do I have to do to change that?

A lot of strategy is involved in making it into the money and possibly winning. Stats show that even the best players barely make it to the money 20% of the time. If you're over 15% in the money then you're doing really well.

After you reach a certain stage in the tournament where the stacks become shallow, luck gets involved. You're going to need to push / stack off with coin flip hands (AK/AQ/AJ... vs pocket pairs etc) or even marginal hands in late position. That's how people bust in the first place.

 

[greatgame230]

Hi, first you must persevere defining your game and try to learn everything you can, reading books, watching training sessions and reading the hand analysis in the forum, I wish you the best of luck and I hope you can publish your achievements soon.

Greetings

 

[stamark]

You have to be aware of your position and what cards you play with,have pot control and be aggressive when it's needed.Also don't put too often your chips in risk.Most of all be patient!

 

[mariale_1990]

try to risk more, not only play strong hands, in spite of only playing strong hands they can make you lose, with this I do not try to say that you do not play with strong hands, to those you have to get the most out of them, but you must have very careful because as I said before you can not always win with them, try to analyze your opponents more to try to make the best decision possible and play as safe as you can..
not everything is luck

 

[spr0ck3t]

-Don't get married to your big hands postflop - if you get a quarter of your stack in with QQ and someone is showing a lot of aggression on a board with a king, ace, and flush/draw you can still have 3/4 of your stack just folding

-Pay attention to stack sizes - around 10bb you should be in push/fold mode, and can look up some charts to work on this part. Short stack plays a lot differently than deep stack. Similarly, someone with 100bbs 3betting is usually scarier than someone with 10bb 3bet shoving. Also, and this on seemed more obvious but I see this a lot still, a 100bb shove is Way different than a 10bb shove - people shoving with ATo in the first stages of a tournament are donking, people shoving with ATo towards the end might be hoping for a call.

-Play tight in the beginning, and steal blinds towards the end. In the beginning of the tournament, there's no antes (usually) - why throw away 2.5bb or whatever raising king rag on the button to steal 1.5bb? Towards the end of the tournament, there can be 2 or more bb in the middle - if you have 11bb and everyone in short, a min-ish raise on the button with Q8o can make sense; you even have OK equity if you're called.

-and last - don't care about bubbling! this sounds weird, but if you're just focused on cashing, you'll never make money. unless it's important that you cash in That particular tournament for some reason (say, if you finally get to play in the wsop main event like you've fantazised about all your life, not that I've thought about it or anything), the bubble is just a part of the tournament where everybody plays reall tight (which you can exploit by loosening up). You're not playing to get your buyin back; you're playing for first!

Good luck!