I'm reasonably new to poker having taken the game seriously for a bit over 12 months. Only over the past few months have I started consistently turning a small profit from playing SNG's and MTT's online at stars. I am yet to crack a big pay day in a MTT with my biggest cash only being $270. Recently I am running semi deep in a lot of tourneys but I always seem to bust around 15-30 runners out. This doesn't seem to change whether there are 8000 runners or 300 runners, or whether I have a monster stack on the money bubble or a small stack. I would very much appreciate suggestions and strategies that anyone implements at the deeper stages of MTT's from about 40 runners out to the finish. I seem to have absolutely no trouble getting to this stage of a tourney with a top 10 stack but from here I can't quite figure out what is holding me back from regularly making FT's. I am pretty confident that my game in regards to stealing and determining hand ranges is quite solid but I am obviously missing out on a few things that others have over me. Fire away! Cheers

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Originally Posted by pittdog5460

I'm reasonably new to poker having taken the game seriously for a bit over 12 months. Only over the past few months have I started consistently turning a small profit from playing SNG's and MTT's online at stars. I am yet to crack a big pay day in a MTT with my biggest cash only being $270. Recently I am running semi deep in a lot of tourneys but I always seem to bust around 15-30 runners out. This doesn't seem to change whether there are 8000 runners or 300 runners, or whether I have a monster stack on the money bubble or a small stack. I would very much appreciate suggestions and strategies that anyone implements at the deeper stages of MTT's from about 40 runners out to the finish. I seem to have absolutely no trouble getting to this stage of a tourney with a top 10 stack but from here I can't quite figure out what is holding me back from regularly making FT's. I am pretty confident that my game in regards to stealing and determining hand ranges is quite solid but I am obviously missing out on a few things that others have over me. Fire away! Cheers

Do you find yourself playing lots of hands at this stage? Or very few (i.e. waiting for top premiums)?