which is the most important thing for you when playing a tournament

[Smokewood]

If it's a long tournament, I need some weed, and some snakes. Online or live, makes no difference.

lol snacks, not snakes!!!

 

[ChickenArise]

Weed messes with my intuition. How does anyone play while stoned?

 

[mariale_1990]

one of the most important things for me is to have a winning mind, if I play thinking that I will lose the tournament, it's going badly from the beginning

 

[pancho_1954]

The most important thing for me is the concentration and keep calm

 

[Chief talking bull]

Keep focused and don't go on tilt when you take a bad beat.

 

[Lord Foma]

for me the most important thing is to have a calm mind

For me, the most important thing in tournaments is getting into prizes

 

[iwont20]

For me it's maintaining concentration. I tend to lose it on the 4-5th hour in the tournament. Any recommendations?

 

[DomGov]

bankroll Management

 

[chezzzi_qwe]

• Do not often come into play in early position.

(Position at the table: early, middle, late and the blinds)

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• Make sure that some of the cards that seem "so beautiful", and the related decisions, in fact, bring only destruction.
• Success - for the most simple solution. Do not waste your chips on unnecessary calls.
• Learn additional techniques, such as protection and theft blinds bluff.
• Learn to play aggressively. This is one of the most important poker lessons - how to become an aggressor.

 

[Gohaku94]

Be ready to bust it in all ins so i can get over it as quickly as posible

 

[Gamebreakr25]

for me the most important thing is to have a calm mind

The most important thing for me is to be focused. No distractions. Most importantly ... To Have fun !!!! Have a good night

 

[Misaki]

1st place ;D

just playing good I'm generally a cash game player but when I play tourney session i'm more focused than on my cash regular sessions. so ye. Clear mind+ some snacks because tourneys are long.

 

[pecam]

for me the most important thing is to have a calm mind

you should keep calm even if you haven't luck

 

[pecam]

for me the most important thing is to have a calm mind

you should have studied the game before and use what you know

 

[Steve Deeble]

To ensure that I make smart decisions around the bubble.

 

[Poker_Mike]

Every bet or move that I make.....does it help me get closer to the Final Table....YES / NO

What else matters? Playing well....playing correctly....table respect? Just get me to the money and then the final table!

Good luck !

 

[VMVarga]

To already realize I may lose and be ok with that outcome.

It always helps your mental toughness to learn to be okay with the statistical certainty of losing. You are facing tough odds and an uphill battle every time you enter a tournament, and you face a difficult enough time making it in the money, let alone first place. This is why bankroll management and focusing on the overall success of your play--rather than stats like wins/losses or ITM%--can be so important.

Keeping the size of your wagers to a small percentage of your total bankroll helps you withstand the really bad slumps where you just can't seem to cash very often, or at all. And focusing only on the quality of your playing can help you avoid getting burnt out; the grind of playing a lot of tournaments can be tiresome whether you win or lose, but it is less so when you are not getting stressed out about whether you are winning or losing money.

If you are already good at this mental sort of stuff, you might make better use of your time studying more of the theory part of the game.

 

[Nathan Smith]

Patience, discipline and endurance. Patience to wait for the best spots, discipline to fold when you are beat and endurance to remain focused for a long period of time (and to notice when the best spots come up).

 

[Ikeman74]

Play concentrated and not make mistakes,and best to make it in the Money at least.

 

[pkobbeltvedt]

The most important thing to me is the strategy I apply.

When the blinds are small I play more hands, but when the blinds go up, I apply my tournament strategy where I play certain hands.


A big part of the strategy is to keep calm. If I am happy with the way, I've been playing certain hands but lost anyway due to an unlucky river hand, I try to stay focused and not be too aggressive in pursuit of winning back the lost chip count.

 

[LuisBoaC]

For me it's got to be maintaining focus over long periods of time. Just remembering to pay attention to what everyone does whether I'm in the hand or not seems to be my biggest hurdle, but if I do that the rest becomes much easier.

 

[roger perkins]

for me its to play my game. i really have to work on clamming down in the later levels where i tend to have my matusow moment. I can play an excellent game then in one hand make a move i know is foolish. then wonder why i played so well for 3 hours then blew it with one stupid move

 

[Poker Orifice]

HOLD!!!!!!!!!!
(for my hands to hold)

 

[mrbond8844]

have a strategy/gameplan, bankroll management, get to know the players around you.

 

[JBGoode]

Not only compare range based off position, but also adding in chip stacks/standard open range of players.