Starting strategy

[Yura Nabok]

In the beginning of a tournament I believe that It's very important to only play good hands.

 

[RiversRage]

I'm the guy sitting and waiting for you to go all in waking up with kk or AA best believe I'm calling lol. I assume you can present a wild loose table image that way and wake up the next hand with solid holdings and push again finding a caller or two and doubling or tripling up. Only issue with your all in strategy is if you have several whales willing to call you with any two cards busting you out first hand trying to set your wild table image.

 

[AjsmenX]

I think "Tight is right" is good strategy for start

 

[FeRRi0]

No sense go all in with any too, especially at start of tournaments, when there are a lot of maniacs who will call your all in with other "any two" or better ) its become flip coin, 0 value

 

[Svyat66556]

I all tournaments will begin with a study of the rivals, that time, miss the moves and then just starts playing

 

[VovanBaron]

I dont tell anybody my game strategy even in cc forum)))that is my personal discovering and notes.any info is an advedvantage))so nice try!)but i wont be exploited.gg

 

[Zsofia90]

I never go all-in at the beginning and I pick my cards with which to play, be it beginning, middle or end. As someone mentioned, I usually target those who go all-in early and want to see them out as soon as possible.

 

[litaana]

only go all in if it is a rebuy and i have decent cards otherwise i play it safe

 

[bumerangue]

I love to go allin in the first hand when I got aces, kings or queens

 

[avipokiri143]

Lol, i never go all in first hand unless i have pocket aces or kings and the other players shove on me or if it's a rebuy turbo tourney, yeah might shove with good top 5% hands.

 

[crimsonblur]

That just seems like a terrible strategy obviously, unless you just want to save some time in freeroll tournaments and you only want to play the ones where you begin with a lead.

 

[LifeLab]

When playing in a tournament I think regardless of how many by-ins you have, playing solid poker is the most important concept. In the beginning play only play solid hands, I like JJ+.

 

[Tman300]

It's not good to go all in the first hand unless you're a little rebuy junkie, don't care how much you're losing or just don't care about winning at all

 

[1putnik]

The game must be tightly on early stage of tournament if you're not crazy maniac playing on luck.

 

[Ahoy]

I usually wait around 30 minutes to start or sit out for a while to avoid players like you. No matter what you are dealt someone always sucks out -

Usually, after 30 min to an hour, most of you guys are busted out and people can start playing actual poker

Very true I tend to do this too.

 

[droozy]

It is silly strategy to go for all in. You have to build up tight face at the start of the tournament.

 

[karkachi]

A lot of patience because in the beginning many players go all in

 

[Slax]

Besides pairs , AK would do you a solid at begining of games...Do it man,

 

[paulsmall007]

Yea I'm not going all in unless it's warranted. If u can't play short stacked or starting level stack u have holes in ur game and need to figure out how to diversify ur gsme and play to that speed of play. . Just reloading buy ins and hoping for the best is silly.

 

[Narciso]

To risk all-win in the first leg with AK may not be good with many opponents, that is, depending on the position, since a weak pair could be enough to make a freak of that hand if you do not hit any cards!
What many people support is that you have a flop preview percentage of 20%!
Good Games!

 

[Navin Sarabjeet]

I am starting with all in.

How do you start the tournament?

This is totally wrong and true bingo.
Try to sit a little and observe your opponents, it is also good to label them and make small notes as how they play.
Focus on their pre-flop action and bet-sizing...
I try this and it helps me quite a lot.
Out of the 10.000 players i "mostly" end up in the top 15%.

Sometimes you do have bad beats: for example.
you have aa on the bb and utg+2 shoves all-in.
You call and he ha k5 off and hits his two pair and your out, but you can't let that stop you from playing poker the right way.
On the long run you will always be a winner..

Hope this helps a bit..
gl at the tables

 

[Jester36rus]

Nice joke!

 

[shody]

Stay calm and waiting for good hands to come,in last period of time im trying hard to go all in just with aces,but its really hard to fold pair of kings or queens.

 

[Fratchen]

In the beginning of a tournament It's very important to play tight.
In later levels I start to bluff.

 

[karkachi]

I advise you to play calmly, patiently and wait for those excellent cards with jj qq kk so your chances of winning chips at the beginning will be very high