Tournament Strategies
After receiving pocket cards, you are immediately faced with a choice: play your cards and either raise or call the blinds, or fold.
Practice Matters
Your stack size is one of the most important factors
Your stack size is one of the most important factors besides your cards. If you fail to adjust to everyone’s stack sizes, you are guaranteed to fail at tournament poker. Because of this, the next section will be quite long. I suggest you read and reread this material, as I will teach you how to play technically sound poker.
Playing Very Deep
Playing Very Deep For simplicity, I am going to assume you are very deep-stacked when most players at the table, including yourself, have over 125 big blinds. This may seem like an extraordinarily deep-stacked tournament to an online player, where most tournaments start you with less than 100 big blinds, but large stacks are quite normal in high-buy-in live tournaments. This is the main reason why so many professionals have such a large return on investment in live tournaments despite most tables being filled with the best players in the game.