Multi Table Tournaments
Posted by Waldorf 1 on 23 Sep 2008 at 10:09
After Adam’s success at his first tournament last week, we’re going to see how he gets on with an online multi-table tournament (MTT), which he’ll play tonight. As you’ll probably already know, MTTs are a very different bag to single table tournaments, and it’s key that Adam gets to grips with how these work, and quickly.
I’ll go into more details about the training session and the key lessons later, but what’s really important is that MTTs have three distinct stages; the early, middle and final tables.
Early tournament play usually means one thing – lots of ‘fish’ – meaning a half-skillful player can earn lots of chips and progress quickly. But it’s important at this stage to keep an extremely tight game with little or no bluffing. Stick it out without losing too many chips and the fish will gradually disappear.
The middle time period is after almost all of the fish have left the game, except for a lucky few, and the remaining players are going to be fair to excellent poker players. Now’s the time to loosen up and play your normal game; gamble a bit and collect enough chips to be a force at the final tables.
The final table is almost always represented by excellent players, or a few fair players who are having a good day. Now is the serious time, you are within touching distance of that big first prize, take your time, assess each pot and the players in the pot very carefully, and when you feel like you have them beaten, go at it with conviction and be brave. It is on the final table where you can afford to take a few more risks, however, be mindful that you will be up against nine other very good players.
Good luck Adam!
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Not bad, I'd give that advice 7/10, yeah you'll win some tournies, but you won't become a pro. 1. Fish - depends what level of tournie you play. Yes $50 and under MTT will be packed with carp but onceyou get over that $50 threshold, you'll find the carp have swum away. I play in $200+ MTTs and I guarantee you that the fish count is less than 5%. You won;t get many fish entering the Sunday night $1.5m Guaranteed at one of your main competitors I'll tell you that. 2. Final Table. In my book you have 2 choices, by the aggressor and gtry and build you chip stack, quickly, or sit back and let other players knock each other out. Obviously the cards you get will play a big part. I won a huge MTT recently and one of the key thins for me was that one of the players at the final table had been on my tabl pretty much all the way through, I made ,loads of notes on his style and had him / her (you never know do you?) well and truly worked out. Get to fnal table and sure enough their style of play continued. I knew that a big raise in middle position was almost always a bluff and had seen him/her get caught several times. I'm slightly behind him is terms of chips, but only by about 10%. There are 7 players left, I'm 4th in chips, not much in it. Sat in BB. Dealt JJ. Couple of folds, round to our man, big raise.Folds, round to me, I call. Flop comes out 4J3 (Can't remember if the 4 and 3 were right, but they were rags to me). I check, he raises, he's now got half his stack in play, committed. I reraise All In. He folds. 3 hands later I took him/her clean out...to be fair I had AA against 99. See - prior knowledge and using notes helped my out a great deal there. I sat bac until I knew I had the player beaten, took no risks and elminated a good player. From then on I went all out, guns blazing, reraising all the way, caught a couple of monsters (AA, KK, JJ in about 7 hands) and within 20 minutes of knocking out Mr Middle Position Raise, I'd taken over $10k. Thanks for coming.
