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
Many of the concepts discussed here
Many of the concepts discussed here will be very applicable to smaller stack sizes. Basically, I am going to tell you how to play sound, deep-stacked tournament poker. From there, I will teach you how to adjust from this standard play as your stack size diminishes. Every option is available to you when you are deep-stacked. You can continuation-bet, bluff, check-raise, float, or do anything else you can think of. You must be adept at putting your opponents on a range and exploiting their poor play. In deep-stacked poker, you need a large bag of tricks, as most opponents will catch on if you use the same few plays repeatedly. If you don’t know all your options, you are certain to fail at high-stakes tournaments. Buckle up and get ready to learn how to play deep-stacked no-limit holdem tournaments.
Think Ahead: In no-limit holdem, much like chess,
Think Ahead: In no-limit holdem, much like chess, one mistake early in a hand can quickly snowball, costing you your entire stack. Hence, you must minimize pre-flop mistakes. For example, raising with K-10o from middle position is probably fine, but if the button re-raises, especially if he is tight, you should fold, no matter how deep your stack, because you are almost certainly a huge underdog to win a large pot and a huge favorite to lose one. You may be slightly ahead of your opponent’s hand right now, but there is no profitable way to play this hand post-flop.