In the first part of this article, we addressed ourselves to the principle of one's objectives and lucky. In the second part, we go through a whole tournament from the conservative opening up to the push- and- Pray.
Losing players call tournaments with large field of competitors like a lottery, while Winning Players do well long term.
Conservative Opening
"Just because you can does not mean that you need." This sentence my father said to me when I was in elementary school, and I still think that.
Just because you can gamble in a tournament (and must), that does not mean you should always continue to do.
When the ratio (added cost per round, so the blinds and ante) between your stack and the CPR is greater than 20:1, you have to gamble no reason. With such a value, you can play "right" poker, as one might say.
This means you can practically fold call in any situation, or raise. However, this does not mean that you should not use the opportunity, if they are favorable for results.
In this phase of the tournament you can afford to play conservatively and avoid Coin flips. There are even professionals who do not always go all-in, if not more than 100 times the CPR as a stack have, no matter how strong their hand is.
They argue that even a 80% chance is not big enough for an all-in. Therefore, they even fold AA in the first blind level, if, for example, be a main event goes.
I believe this philosophy for both right and wrong. Of course, the chips are available for your staying in the tournament - you have to defend them so sure. Chips without a tournament.
If you are by far the best player at your table, it makes sense to fold in such a situation. With a big stack, you can accumulate nine weaker players and other chips.
But if the situation is different, you naturally want to build the largest possible pot if you hold a winning hand. At the start of a tournament, it is therefore best to avoid big pots when you just be a coin flip or you may stand even worse.
If the ratio chips: CPR is less than 6:1, are the options call, raise or fold no more for you. In the next hand you play in any event, your whole stack, because you are basically pot-committed.
Push and Pray
Online tournaments are developing now in the final phase of a veritable all-in festival. Do not be impressed on. Good players do not randomly, but systematically.
Dan Harrington has written, it is better to take a risk to the ratio chips: to hold CPR over 20 than to have to take a risk in order to achieve this ratio again.
Timing is almost more important than the hands that they get. Since they do not know if the next hand you get will be better or worse, you can only rely on your timing and the approaching blind.
enter the first in a hand is always better than the first caller to be. For example:
Your stack-CPR ratio has shrunk to 6, and wait for a hand with which you can all walk-in. You get K 
Q 
. Suppose we, your opponent has a stack CPR ratio of 5 and sits on A 
6 .
Q . Suppose we, your opponent has a stack CPR ratio of 5 and sits on A 6 .If you go all-in, your opponent will fold may. If this opens up to you the hand, he is probably even all-in.
They lie with KQ against very many hands back, in which an opponent pushes all-in, but the same hand would fold if he is to pay so that a all-in. The first strike, as Harrington calls it, is therefore more important than the cards.
In such a situation, looking from the players and the date of the best is for an all-in capable. They would rather go against a stack all-in, which is larger than yours. If you lose against a player with a smaller stack, which is perhaps more willing to use the opportunity to double. Stay with one or two big blinds back, what about a retirement virtually synonymous.
At about the same size stack it makes sense to start a test with maximum profit. But the successful stealing the blinds is now already so valuable that the risk is worth, keep in mind that if you want to profit exponentially when you double next time.
On the Bubble
At first the bubble is not interesting for you if you play to win. Concentrate on making the right moves to get to the final table.
It was said that no one can free themselves from the pressure of the bubble. If these can be influenced by them, which has an impact on you.
Since the majority of players just trying to make the money, you will avoid too short before reaching the money ranks in a situation where you might suddenly tournament at stake. This allows you to steal the blinds more often and more often to force your opponents to fold.
Watch carefully who will not play on the bubble. Shoot yourself on this one and build your stack. If another player at your table seems to follow the same principle, do this for the moment from the path. An aggressive opponent, you can engage in a pot that is larger than the one you really want to play.
Second, if there are seven players at your table, give up their blinds without a fight, leave should not take any risk and getting involved in a hand with an uncertain outcome.
However, note the following: A player with a small stack probably already playing push or fold, ie it is a fairly reasonable hand Raise your hand every answer with an all-in. These players are looking for the coin flip and would like to win either retire with a re-steal or. Push-or-Fold-player fall to be treated with caution.
Final remark
I have, as you may have noticed, not skipped over the game at the Final Table. The problem is that many factors play a role. Blinds, stacks, player behavior and more. I believe it to make virtually impossible to establish general guidelines.
It was my goal to present with this product, how to adjust your game in order to achieve more final tables. I hope we'll see you there.
