If you are successful year at the WSOP in this do you have a solid knowledge of deep- stack tournaments have.
As the starting stack today is three times the buy-in amount, good deep stack game is a basic condition for this to come at an event far.
This means that if you are used to play regular live poker tournaments where the structure is often so fast that only the few can really go through a deep stack tournaments, you have to adjust your game.
Play cash games?
A deep stack tournament behaves much like a deep- stack cash game, and the cash game elements that normally play in a tournament does not matter, here are entirely relevant.
The set-trap with a short stack scenario is sometimes a bad strategy is in deep stack tournaments, one of the most important weapons.
If the stacks are really big, you can in one hand raise, re-raise and still fold. This allows more varied game in which the more important skills.
Your initial goal is to play small pots and risking as little as possible until you really get a monster.
Do not risk your chips is not for nothing. You will find almost certainly a better situation to invest your chips if you muster the patience.
Hand Selection
At the beginning of such a tournament, if your M * is larger than 200, you can basically play any style you like. Just as in a cash game you can track your own personal line.
This is the right time to play suited connectors, or even one Gapper (if you is that). The longer you wait, the smaller your M will be the more limited your options.
Try to see the flop as cheaply as possible when you hold hands, which potentially can be monsters, but unobtrusive. No one paid out of a straight, though four connected cards are on the board. So must your hand be hidden so well that no one can see at a glance.
Play hands that are easy to fold when you flop a monster. Now you should not make the mistake of losing your stack with bottom two pair or worse hands.
While your M shrinks slowly, close your hands with marginal chances for a good flop gradually, because the investment is not worth more if you have already put a significant portion of your stack before the flop.
In M * is defined as the ratio of your stack divided by the current blinds unt if Antes, for example, 30,000 in chips; Blind 100/200, M = 100
The all- in
One of the hallmarks of a regular tournament player, this all-in, because in most tournaments only in the first levels really deep stack play is possible before the blinds get so big that the players are forced into the "push-and-Fold mode to switch. "
The more chips you have, the less you should go all-in.
Just think back to your last Depp stack cash games. If you and your opponent both have very large stacks, how often is it, then to an all-in?
It is very rare to have two players, both of which hold more than 200 BB, to today go all-in. It happens so rarely that you would normally even remembers.
In deep stack tournaments It is the same. If you think not just the nuts and opponents have the right to add its chips voluntarily, it makes sense in the rarest cases, to risk all their chips.
If you are still not convinced, here are some numbers:
Blinds: 25/50
Your stack: 27,000
Opposing Stack: 32,000
Preflop: Increase to 3 BB (150), the big stack paid only. The pot now are 300 chips.
Flop: put the pot, the enemy paid. The pot now are 900 chips.
Turn: Another Potbet of you, one more call. The pot is now 2700 chip size.
River: One last pot-sized bet, a last call. The pot is 8100 chips.
In this scenario, a player behaves very aggressively, while others only paid. The pot grows to was 8100 chips, which is about one third of the stack size of each player.
To bet the whole stack, both players had more than three times must put as many chips.
In other words, it takes a hyper-aggressive action to get to about 540 BB in the pot.
Although effective from this case and a mostly when both players flop strong hands. But the all-in you should still emphasize the beginning of a tournament in your arsenal.
In the early stages of a tournament you play the cash game grinders. Doubling is completely unnecessary.
Try rather to build your stack slowly and steadily. A tournament is long and you can build your stack at that time by 50-100%, without being involved once in a big pot.
Since you are forced not just to accumulate chips, there is no reason to risk it for nothing. Protect your stack, and if you know that you have the best hand, make the move.
If you play well, you will need in the first round out of luck.
