Ok...in the case where you are at the beginning stage in a tournament, and you have donks to left and the right of you...what is your strategy to accumulate as many chips as possible without losing a lot of your own?
I see people going all-in all the time...usually with garbage cards and get lucky when they hit their seven deuce off suit.
And if you don't do anything, the small and big blinds eat away at your stack to the point where it's pretty much over for you.


I'm just learning so I haven't actually played in a real tournament...I would assume people would be more careful about winning and wouldn't squander away their chips easily...but who knows, i could be wrong.
I practice on different places for play money until I am confident enough to dive into the real thing.


Is it really luck at the beginning stages? They should call it Bingo instead of poker with the way some people play.

Sounds like your talking about a rebuy tourney. They do this to build there stack. So when the rebuy/break period is over, they have a large chip stack. When the normal play starts. Talked to a guy once at a 3.30+ tourney he said that usually it works out pretty good, but during that tourney he was around $60, before he finally gave up.

Just play the top hands in the beginning. I used to play by the strategy that since the blinds are low, why not see as many flops as possible (if in position) and get paid off by the donks. But what happens is you get stuck chasing a straight or flush, the donkey bets on every street and you just leak chips. So only play the best hands, and since there are donkeys when you do play you will get paid off, and you won't be constantly leaking chips.

I only start blind stealing when antes come into play unless everyone folds to my button

I wish I had something to add too :-) , but everyone else has given such grt advice .. lol
I haven't played in a real tourney (only on pc, vs the pc) , but yeah I start really tight
and get looser as the levels increase, sometimes will have 75% of my original stack until say
the teen levels (13 14 etc...) then according to pot size I start playing riskier ....
But if u r lucky u could hit nice cards (AA KK QQ AK) early on and triple up by the end of
the 3rd level , that part is just luck ...
Oh well I did add something , but nothing new ...lol