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Strategy: ITM and towards final table
I don't have all that much experience with MTTs yet, but I have been playing about 20 MTTs now and gotten itm 5 times. What I have noticed each of the times I've gotten itm or close to it, is that the play is getting more and more chaotic, especially in the turbos of course, but also during the normal NL MTTs blinds starts to catch up with people when it gets close to itm.
What I am looking for is good strategies for how to play there. What I do now is that I push to steal in position if I'm unraised 2.5BBs or my whole stack if I'm less than 10BBs. Usually I am less than 10BBs, and that means I have to risk my stack over and over, and then coinflips can't be avoided. How do you deal with this? Any other strategies than pushing all in when I'm in position unraised or otherwise when I have a great hand? I feel that pretty much everyone are doing the same thing, and if I do the same as everyone else it's just pure luck wether I get to the final table or not. Hope to learn how to play good poker in this chaos
So what I'm really looking for is some comments and tips on how to play from itm to get to the final table. What do you look for when pushing to steal? Wich hands to you push with, or does hand matter at all as long as you have a good position? Does the stack sizes of those you want to fold to you matter? And I'd also like to know what to do when sitting on the big blind or smallblind, sometimes people limp in in front, sometimes they raise 2BBs, sometimes 3 or 4. What do I look for when making the decision to check, call or raise? And a last question, to what degree does your stacksize on the bubble matter when it comes to getting to the final table or not?
A lot of questions I know, but I'd be real happy if some of the good MTT players here could write a bit about this. I've read the guides a few times, and some of this might be covered, but some more tips/strategies when it comes to this period of the MTT would help lots.
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