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Tournament Strategy Mid/Late

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  1. Yettiman Yettiman is offline

    Loganville, GA
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    Aug 1st, 2008 (8/1/2008 8:22pm)

    I play on primarily on Bodog and with the smaller tourney fields (outside the Sunday 100K) I am routinely playing against the same players night in and night out. It is clear that a lot of the players are more advanced than I am so once the tourney field shrinks to the last 27 or so, most of the players are pretty good (like most online tourneys of higher buy-in). From the tourney strategy that I have read about, once we have gotten that deep in the tourney we are supposed to open up our game and begin playing more aggressively, attacking the blinds in order to maintain and build our chips stacks. What I am encountering is that all the players know what each other are doing and even though I have given off a solid image, I often get played back at when I raise preflop with a less than strong starting hand. Say I have A 8 or something similar on the button and it is folded around to me with blinds at 400 -800 with a 50 chip ante and a stack size of 20,000. I raise to 2200, and the big blind who has 30,000 plays back at me. Should I be willing to put my stack at risk with a marginal hand like A8? Should I have just gone all-in from the button, or made a different raise amount? Folding an A on the button doesn't seem right in this case? I have run into this situation with hands like KQ or KJ, AT, and so on. There is something that I am not doing correctly, I would like to know what it is. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

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  2. elusively elusively is offline

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    Aug 1st, 2008 (8/1/2008 8:26pm) in reply to Yettiman

    The most recent/important thing I've learned to add to my MTT game was to have a plan before I do anything.

    Before you raise that A8, know what you're going to do if players XYZ call or raise. You base this plan on your previous experience with the player, AKA read. The nice thing (arguably) about most MTT's is that when you get deep, your decisions are mostly made preflop and on the flop.
  3. pokerhitman pokerhitman is offline

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    Aug 1st, 2008 (8/1/2008 8:28pm) in reply to Yettiman

    IMO....Openshove or fold if its folded to you....maybe even with worse hands depending on the table and the players.
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