You really need to play the tables. On loose passive tables, limp in a lot and take a lot of cards off for min bets on flops. Do some stealing when no one shows too much interest.
On tight aggressive tables you need to be tighter preflop and a little more aggressive post flop.
On loose aggressive tables you can sit back a little more and wait for the big hands.
It is all about knowing the value of your hand vs your opponents. I have had tourneys where I have kicked ass (like cheap turbors) playing 40+% of my hands early.
After reading some stuff by William Chen and Paul Phillips (Raymer too) I think that early on is a lot like a cash game in larger field MTTs. Doubling your chips is close to doubling your equity in the tourney (possibly even better).
I am not a big time tourney winner, but I have done well in the low limit MTTs when I choose to play them but take it for what you think it is worth.Statistics: Posted by Beavis68 — Sat Sep 15, 2007 12:42 am
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