Scenario 2: You get involved in a big pot in the early stages of a tournament. The difference between 200 and 400 big blinds is mostly irrelevant outside the fact that you can lose an all-in and still survive. Then you can start bullying them around because every decision for them is now about money. Where it matters is when you have several players at your table that are down to 30 big blinds or less in a later stage. If you play 200 big blinds in the beginning of a tournament and somehow you go up to 350 or 400 big blinds, that doesn’t really matter.
So, realistically, the big-pot win early on doesn’t really change the way you should play. And there are almost no players who have really short stacks. You win that pot and find yourself in the top 20 of the leaderboard. Do you proceed cautiously or do you now try to constantly put pressure on the other players?ĭaniel Negreanu: In the early stages of an MTT you don’t have a lot of ICM pressure. Scenario 1: You get involved in a big pot in the early stages of a tournament. "Difference between 200 & 400BB is irrelevant"
So you eliminate these hands and that’s a fundamentally better way to play. Allowing them to see flops with 9-6 off-suit or 9-2 off-suit.Īlthough raise-sizes are so small today that they’re almost like a limp. Because essentially, if you limp, you give the small and big blind the chance to realize their full equity. But, I don’t think you see good players do that. It's true that you have a lot of big blinds so you can theoretically afford to limp a lot. And exploit that by trying to take pots from them on the flop. If you can identify a player as weak, particularly post-flop, you want to play more hands against them. This forces you to play very conservative. I’m a big believer in the saying that you can’t win a tournament in the early stages but you can lose it. Win at Low Stakes Live No-Limit Hold’emĭaniel Negreanu: In the early stages of many tournaments there is no ante.
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