| Posted by: drizzt at July 28, 2007, 4:44 am | | Topic: Thoughts and suggestions for playing the middle section of holdem MTT Forum: Card Chat |
thank you stormswa =) Im cautious about being firm in my opinions because all too often in poker (and life for that matter =P) it seems i never know enough to be sure.
I really like what bob_tiger mentioned: Dont be too eager to throw a lot of chips at pots, and dont be eager to knock people out, especially chasing flush/straight draws. Most often the people who lead at the beginning of the freerolls i played were out before half the players were out (and these tournaments had like 3-3.5k people starting out). The top 10-30 chip leaders changed rapidly up until the final 100 due in large part because a lot of those leaders had a lot of chips, and slowly they took too many flush/straight chances or bullied the small stacks too much and over time it drained them. If your gonna leak chips, its much better to leak chips to blind stealers than do what bob said not to do and chase low stacks on your draw.
When i see a chip leader at my table, now and days I just get excited. If i have a big stack, I just know that most chip leaders wont get into a big battle with a large stack player, and if I have a modest chip count, I'm aiming to double up through him. thats why you shouldn't aim for being chip leader until ery ery late in the tournament. Hell, i seem to do my best when I dont get a large chip stack until mid-late middle of the tournament.
If you happen to make it to chip leader early however, Bob_tiger said it all, trap trap trap. People will often see you either as a big bully or a rock player that they can leak, find out who thinks what and use that as your advantage. This also has the positive of making you seem random. If you play tight against blind stealers and bust them hard with a big hand, but then start to steal pots yourself, people wont know whether you're a bully or someone who's having a good run of cards.
Just dont fall into a sterotype as chip leader, because a lot of your mistakes tend to cost you more than if you weren't chip leader. Try to not look at tournament statistics if its a MTT, and tell yourself that while you lead at your table, there are plenty of large fish out there; or ignore your chip stack strength as much as possible and try to play your game as if you were about tied with most people at your table. Poker is psychological, and a lot of going on tilt is because people dont get their mind straight when the emotions are rushing along
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