Flush
Join Date: Sep 2004
Posts: 406
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Point 1 Tight is right in the first hour of a MTT.
Point 2 Shut your pie hole unless you are eating pie.
Point 3 Play where you belong.
Point 4 Stop telling bad beat stories.
Point 5 Specialize.
Point 6 Be a big picture person.
Point 7 Have some guts with the nuts.
Point 8 Two special situtations to tighten up.
I have noticed there are 2 places in the course of any online tourney it pays to to tighten up, because you will make a quite a bit more money. They are right after the field is in the money and right when you bust down to the final table.
For example, in a 500 person tourney where 50 are paid. Going from 60 to 50 players may take a while. Most of the field is watching the board to see how many are left and you are hand for hand which can really slow down the pace. Nobody wants to leave now after 3 hours of play or so. The desire to get paid at least a little something is tremendous. So most will tighten their play considerably, especially the short stacks who can afford to go 1 or 2 more rounds.
Now you hit the magic number 50, everyone is typing in congrats on making the money and so. There is this tremendous emotional release and people start hitting the raise and call buttons with abandon as compared to before. You can just hear the chorus of "were in the money." They reason I feel it is appropriate to tighten up is that you can often move up 20 places without doing anything during this period. I am not saying don't play good hands or take chips when they are offered, just resist the emotional trap and refuse to join in.
The same thing happens when the final table is seated. It usually takes quite a bit of time to bust out number 11 and 12. A lot more hand for hand. A lot more stress as you may have been playing 5 to 7 handed for a while. And remember, most people are exhausted by this point. Even here on the west coast it may be 1 or 2 in the AM in some tourneys, much later than most US and Canadian players go to bed
So you get to 10 players and there is this round of congrats and so on. Usuallly, 3 people or so will bust out within a round or two often times over playing marginal hands. To me, this often represents the same emotional release of finally making it. If at all possible you need to move up at the final table, it is imperative to long term success. The moneys all at the top.
As I said in posts past, everthing beyond point 6 was going to largely opinion based on personal observation. Please feel free to post your own observations.
Regards,
Soupie
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