i put a lot of time into this yesterday in lex's thread and thought i'd post it again for anybody who missed out.

fold anytime somebody reraises you unless you have aces anytime in a tourney.

call raises with suited connectors as long as you have over 10 big blinds.

limp fold small pocket pairs with 7-15 big blinds.

min raise preflop with AA no matter how many limpers then min bet the flop

edit: don't forget that when there is a 4flush on the board and somebody bets they are always bluffing so you should reraise them at least four times the size of the pot to get them out of it.

if you flop a big hand you should always check/call all the way to the rive then on the river shove all of your chips in, then will have no idea that you have a big hand.

if they check/min raise you on the flop they always have you beat and you should fold.

stealing blinds is key so when it is folded to you in late position make a big raise of 7-8 times the big blind to really scare them away from their hand and force them to fold

2nd Edit: this goes along with my first line but i will reiterate it because people are dumb and i always see these posts where it says, pocket kings...what should i do and they end up calling because they think that the other player has QQ- or maybe AK. don't be a fucking idiot, they have aces and you need to fold. if you are on a site where you can fold and show you should do this to show the others how good you are and they will just give you free chips later because they will be afraid to play with you.

you always want to set mine with a pocket pair but what many won't tell you is that it is still profitable to set mine with less than 15 big blinds when there is a 3x raise, people think you need to be at least like 12x their raise deep to set mine but they are idiots, if you have chips you should set mine, thats basically it, if u don't catch the set then fold, if they check the flop however you may think that they missed with something like Ak or something but they are trying to trap you, they flopped top set, you should just click the fold button and when it asks if you want to check instead cuz checking is free you still click the fold button to show them up.

if anytime in the tournament you think you are becoming a shortstack just remember that you are only shortstacked with 4.5 big blinds or less. so if you have 6 big blinds and QJs utg you need to fold, you have plenty of chips to wait to see if you can get dealt pocket aces.

--i feel like i'm giving too much info away for free but i'm saving some secrets for myself, maybe if your lucky i will divulge more to you later.

3rd edit: i forgot to mention when stealing blinds from late position you should only be raising 7-8x if you have 40x plus. if you have less than 40 big blinds you need to raise 10-12x to really show them that you aren't messing around so you can pick up those blinds with no resistance. if you are getting called when you 7-8x then you need to lead out with a pot sized bet on the flop to let them know you aren't messing around and to get out of your pot, however if they flat or raise you u have to dump your hand cuz they have u fucked up. if they are constantly reraising you pre when you try and steal then you need to just start open shoving for your whole stack with anything if your stack is between 40-80 big blinds to really show them you aren't messing around.

4th edit: i know many of you out there think that bubble play of mtts is not that important but it is one of the most important things in a tournament. more important than any odds or push/fold strategy when shortstacked. many people play tight on the bubble and will fold all hands just trying to cash. you need to take advantage of this and steal the blinds about 90% of the time when you are on the bubble cash. you don't want to risk all of your chips however. i know that i have been talking about possible risking 40-80 bbs to steal blinds before but now you may risk even more, however on the bubble of cashing you don't want to risk all of your chips so if you are in late position make a raise of exactly 85% or your stack, middle position and early minus utg raise 90% and utg you want to raise 95% percent of your stack to steal the blinds as long as you leave yourself enough for one big blind+1 ante plus one chip. if somebody raises you and puts you in you have to ignore your instincts of pot odds and whatnot, you have to fold to cash because anything can happen as long as you have 1 chip, speaking of one chip, that is why you want to leave yourself with a big blind, ante, and one extra chip when stealing from under the gun (and most don't know this but you should be raising from utg 3x more than from late position to steal because everybody will think you have aces) because anything can happen to you with one chip. i've heard millions of true stories of people coming back from one chip to win tourneys, happens ever day.

 

Originally Posted by Zealous

have you ever won a tourney?

somehow i managed to

didnt read the op but, looks like you put a lot of time into typing up some bullshit

if you play the way you preach, you are in for a rough awakening sir.....

 

Originally Posted by pharreal87

i think its funny that the two guys with under 20 posts thinks this is real

i think its funny that you thought your op was funny. it was too long to be taken as an attempt at humour

 

Originally Posted by Zealous

i think its funny that you thought your op was funny. it was too long to be taken as an attempt at humour

ask allin4flush if he agrees with you. and if you were on here yesterday you would have saw that i added a paragraph at a time so it wasn't much of a read. good job on thinking i was serious tho, and that its not funny. i'm sure you are right about both.

edit: also ask gary if he agrees with you.

 

Originally Posted by pharreal87

ask allin4flush if he agrees with you. and if you were on here yesterday you would have saw that i added a paragraph at a time so it wasn't much of a read.

It was pretty fun to come back and see each section as it was added. As someone who is also hilarious, I will vouch that pharreal is funny. However I'll also add in that there's no convincing people who don't think you're funny that you are. 90% of my coworkers will back you up on that.

I think you're holding back on another key piece of advice, by the way... starting hand selection.

"Ask any successful player, and they will tell you that success begins with starting hand selection. Anyone can play and win with hands like AA or KK but if you've seen poker on TV you know that the best players also win a lot of pots with hands like 78 suited, 58 suited, or even 83 offsuit. If your heros Gus Hansen and Daniel Negreanu can win big with these hands, you really ought to try it yourself! They don't say "Any two can win" just for fun... it's true! A great way to start is to limp every hand you are dealt no matter what. Then if you hit anything on the flop, you're probably ahead, so be prepared to ship it... your opponents will probably try to bluff you off, but don't give up!"

Hope I didn't give away the keys to the bank there...

 

Originally Posted by garyak1

After second bullit I'm thinking level? Then I continued to read and almost choked on my eggs benny, lol man

why did it take so long for the word 'level' to come out here?

 i think its funny that u type out like 2 pages n then say it was a level after like 2 replies actually believing ur pathetic attempt at a level...

 

Originally Posted by Norhas00

I like your in/from IC but I didnt get past 4 lines here... how can you post this with no cliff notes??

if you want to be the best you can't read cliff notes on the stuff. you have to read it all and study it. i would suggest that you read what i have written every day when you first wake up and there would be no way you could lose if you followed my advice.

do you have aids?