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Originally Posted by boomer182_
chipstack- this is important. it actually improves your odds when playing a particular hand. the reason being is because any chips you have above the average tourney chipstack are freerolls. think of it as gambling with money you don't have any responsibility for. it doesn't matter. but if you make it count and manage it well you can gamble more yet still profit from odds you usually wouldn't work with when short or average stacked.
Bluffing- if every player were equally as good except one, who on average could bluff sucessfully 8% better. he has the advantage and so bluffing is something to focus on. it is something that needs to be 100% perfected in order to be the best tourney player.
odds and likelyhoods- this is important and combining this with bluffing helps to make your bluffs correct due to the fact that likelihood or odds tells you that your opponent has not made his hand and even tho you havent you know you can push him off because your odds and likelihoods or calculations are up to scratch!
reading plays- this mainly comes from experience but can also be acheived by watching or examining poker. it makes life that much easier. if you can read plays 10% better than other players your that much more likely to make the right choices and so make a profit more than they would.
having a well rounded arsenal of weapons- if you know all plays and stratagies involved and used in poker and how to impliment them perfectly then you have an advantage but also reading these is part of the parcel and is good. so keep these upto scratch and your laughing.
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A few things.. I'm not so sure that if your CL or above average stack you should throw it around - particularly with marginal hands and small stacks knocking around. I know this is a common view (chip bully).
The thing is that chips in a tournament are "opportunity" - if you lose chips you reduce your opportunity for getting good hands and increase the opportunity for good hands for your opponents. I consider it wiser to conserve chips and starve the table... let the blinds force your opponents into marginal plays.
Stealing blinds I think is overatted in tournaments - you need the conjunction of too many things - the blinds have to worth it and if they are ppl fight back... The times the blinds have got to 10x my bb and a guy in late fancies an attack and promptly folds his (obvious) 3bb raise attack to my all-in -despite the fact he has pot odds to call!!!! In the very early stages blind attacks are pointless... you don't know the opposition well enough and there isn't enough on the table...
I know some estoll the merits of sophisticated playes in MTT's but the bulk of cash flows revolve about all-ins - often these are forced. As an example I logged my all-ins for a Sng (9 handed ) I won once - I pushed 36 times!! If you're stack is in the middle this often the early stages are virtually irrelevent..
I think they're fun.. but mathematically they are flawed as a game in terms of test of skill (if you play 1000's then the stats kick in but individually no.)...
Even online I rarely leave down at ring in an evening (about 1/7 is a bad session)... In tournaments you can spend three hours and bust out...
Having said that I finally spent T$10 WOW!!! ($10 is usually BB lol)(i.e free
Bodog dollars last weekend.. only tournament I could get onto with the things - 170 entered and I took second for $223 real dollars BUT.. it took me 4 hours!!! lol... got to bed at 2.30on a sunday night just before work......
