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Am i Playing MTTS badley?!!
In alot of MTTs latley ive built up a decent stack only to find myself busting out usually between 50-20th,
should i be playing tight at this stage or go for the win and risk busting out like i have been doing? THS
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HITSQUAD FOREVER!
At the same time you have to ensure that your stack does not dwindle down into the ones that your looking to move on.
Remember by making top 50 in the opens you have defeated 80% of the field and the remaining 20% are either good or lucky or good and lucky. The moves that have got you thus far may not be good enough to use at this higher level. If your looking to raise a hand you should be prepared to shove it if neccessary against a lower stack that shows aggression or fold it to raises that your unhappy with contending.
Just some thoughts from me feel free to ignore them though
nitting up on the bubble will affect you more then help you as on sky the bubble can last sometimes for long periods of times and will start to take large chunks of your stack you will notice going from an above average stack and have a decent chance in going deep to literally just making the cash then being in shove or fold mode which is what you dont want. as i said there is always going to be a couple players that are looking to secure that min cash, apply the pressure on them dont let them get there easy
the op has posted in an attempt to improve his game....if you did the same your reults may improve
gl,dave
50/20 regular in the main event is pretty good going
50/20 in a 60 player mtt is rubbish
i prefer to keep pushing on untill it gets to the higher end so bigger payout,
then you can get mean and keep the pressure on any small stacks.i.e raising them all in with hands from kq upwards as they ill call with a lesser hand or fold to try and ladder(sometimes you walk into a monster but you wont get busted)
gl,dave
You know it makes sense.
;-)
But do you really need to make this play? Your opponent has for arguments sake a 3000 stack one third of yours. With so much yet to play in the tournament there's no real need for you to be aggressive here. I believe it was Eyman who once said in a blog you can tilt even when you're doing well in an MTT and you should be wary of this. I see many chip leaders trying to win it too soon in spots like this and they lose half their stacks to flips or just bad beated with their AK. So the tip here is don't get committed when you don't really need to.
Work around the concept of being aggressive around 20 big blinds or 10 if you're desperate. Don't panic if you're seeing what was your one time highest stack in the tournament becoming an average one. Around the time you're getting busted there's still plenty more time left in the tournament so always look for a better spot and make folds you don't necessarily have to keep flipping to progress. Raise pre flop slightly instead of shoving or limping pre these tips help to keep your stack size healthy.
Therefore you should be playing tight at this stage and being selective with your hands.
I have to go work now but i hope this helped.
good advice from 4fingersAA wil add my bit to it
Sounds a bit like you are often getting all your chips in and racing in the mid stage of a tourney.
If you get all in ahead 3 times eg AK V AQ then you will normally exit the tourney as you will lose once out of every three times ie 70-30 favourite 3 times out of 10 you will get outdrawn.
Try to maintain your chip stack on or around the average stack for the MTT at all times difficult to do all the time but remember the average stack is higher than you think as some players will have a lot more than the average at this stage making your chip stack relatively higher (hope that makes sense lol).
If you can get to the money with an average chip stack then you will always be in the running
Yes its great when you have a huge stack and can use that to push people around but a lot of the time you will bust out trying to get a big stack. In an MTT the key to success is to avoid racing for your stack whenever possible especially pre flop you should be looking to chip up rather than double up.
As for near the bubble well it depends on your table as a rule stay away from big stacks and desperate short stacks if possible try and get chips off players with mid stacks who are treading water its amazing how many players tighten up and blind off a good stack just to min cash
hope that helps
Im not sure how anyone can advise you how to adjust your game when you have given no info on your game. You may be doing fine, MTTs are swingy you can go ages without cashing, you need a lot of luck to win any individual mtt.
Dont tighten up near bubble, get more aggro. Look for the nits looking to mincash and bully them
As for avoiding getting it in with AK against AQ etc, not getting involved when someone raises and you hold AK it seems pretty stupid to me. There are not too many tourneys you can just keep a healthy stack time by just "chipping up", you are going to have to get it in when you think you have the best of it/ pot odds to do so and hope your luck holds up.