Tournament Strategy

[The Professor]

For those of you who are awaiting our Tournament Strategy Guide- well we've got something to tide you over until our guide goes live on the site over the next few months.

We've added an alternate recommendation for a tournament strategy guide on our Tournament Strategy Page.

The alternate guide is by a guy called Bryan Micon, who is a very successfull online poker tournament player, and has also collected $80k+ at this years WSOP.

Take a look if its something that interests you.

[THC]

yea I've heard of him before - pretty well known player

[pocketfives]

Is he playing in the WSOP main event?

[The Professor]

Originally Posted by pocketfives

Is he playing in the WSOP main event?

Yes - from what I've heard he's having a pretty good WSOP.

Before the main event he managed to reach the cash in 3 events, and one of those was a final table, so he will feature on ESPN when they broadcast the WSOP programs later in the year. He cashed out something like $80k from these 3 events.

If that wasn't good enough to top that he entered the main event and he busted out yesterday in 63rd Place which out of 8500+ entrants is outstanding. The prize money for 63rd place was $123,699 so that takes his 2006 World Series of Poker winnings to over $200k - not bad for a few weeks work!

[pocketfives]

Wish I could win even $200 let alone $200k!

I would like to start learning tournament strategy after I've got to grips with the cash game strategy in the winning poker course.

[Twidbin]

Not quite as good as that 21 year that won back to back events.....

[kobayashi78]

Which Multi-Table-Tournaments do you recommend? (Buy-In, ...) And on which sites do you usually play? Any recommendations especially for Titan?

[Rolls]

buy in wise, 10% is an accepted figure, however 5% of your total POKER bankroll is better. This will give you 20 losing sessions, and if you win just one of these you will (or should at least!!) be in the profit.

I find deep stack tourneys much better, as you get to build up your stack with skill rather than luck, which a lot of the shallow stack tourneys seem to rely on. It also means that you have plenty of time with a healthy stack and are not short stacked after a couple of levels if you are getting no cards.

The difference between the two is with a short stack, you have to push, but playing deep stacks, you can be patient and choose your moment before making a move.

[PokerPrincess]

Very interesting comments about the deep fields and the shallow fields. I have played in both and I find a lot of the deep field tournaments have a lot of alliners who like to push from the very beginning and before the first half hour has gone at least 1/2 the field is gone.

The one thing I think that you have do when playing a deep field is start out tight and play the premium hands. Once you build a good stack you can then let loose more.