adjusting from cash to Mtts (6max)

N1CK

what adjustments would you recommend to make from a standard default Tag style ( 6max cash) to play 6max Mtts?

ACESOVER8s

In Response to adjusting from cash to Mtts (6max):

what adjustments would you recommend to make from a standard default Tag style ( 6max cash) to play 6max Mtts?
Posted by N1CK

Just carry a thought as to the stages of the MTT, keep it tight on the opening levels and establish your image, loosen up as it progresses and your image is working for you. Remember there is no reload (unless in a rebuy format of course) so it's survival above all else

beaneh

Remember your playing a tournament and not cash and it's a different format and there are tonnes of different strategy decisions to be made at every point lol

NH

There are two big differences between cash and tourneys. 

Firstly if you lose your chips in cash you can reload, in tourneys you can't. So yes, I agree survival is important, but probably just as important is chip accumulation. Basically this means you have to build a stack capable of withstanding losing those flips that will happen later on and a stack that can put pressure on your opponents who are looking to survive.

Secondly unlike cash where, assuming you keep your stack topped up, you are always playing deep, in tourneys the blinds increase, making you shorter and changing your flexibility to play in certain ways. Early in a tourney you can play similar to a cash game but then you have to really work on what to do with different stacks especially from the 10BBs to 20BBs range.

A good way to practice would be to play a load of SNGs. Although there are some significant differences between SNGs and MTTs, SNGs feature all the aspects of a MTT. You have the early game where you start off deep, then you have a middle game when the blinds are in the 10-20 BB range, then the endgame where it's all push/fold, so you can get used to different stack sizes and what to do with certain hands in certain spots.

GaryQQQ

Your cash game skills will be very useful as you accumulate chips during for the early (deep-stacked) levels of the tournament. As the blinds become bigger in relation to the stacks you will need to gradually switch to a short-stack strategy, there will be a phase when you get deep during which the majority of pots are being taken down pre-flop undisputed. Learning which stack sizes and which spots are good for shoving/re-shoving/calling shoves becomes crucial to success at the sharp end. When you enter a tournament you must be aiming to win, you'll almost certainly have to win a few flips to get there, but scoring occasional wins is much more profitable than making frequent min-cashes. Good luck.