Multi Table Tournaments (MTTs) are the most profitable, short term poker games available on the web. With so many tournaments on offer, from so many different poker websites you can expect big money for getting to the final table. This guide will give you a baseline strategy, allowing you a good chance of making the money in MTTs.
Not many people know a fundamentally correct poker strategy, which will give you the edge at the table. To profit from poker, you must change your game style at different points during the tournament, to take advantage of your opponent's lack of poker strategy knowledge.
At the start of the tournament, when blinds are low and chip stacks are fresh, people tend to be very tight. This means that if someone make a small raise, it's not worth re-raising unless you have a premium hand, the blinds are so low you're not getting a good enough return for the risk.
Sit tight and play solid poker, limping in with marginal hands and raising big with premium hands. Watch how the other players at the table play, which ones only raise with solid hands? Which ones like to bluff people off the pot? Continue this method and you should gradually enlarge your chip stack, with players paying off your big hands (the blinds are so small you can just keep folding trash).
After 3 to 4 blind levels, watch out for the loose players trying to take down the pot. You've been playing very tight, so you have the image as someone who plays only premium hands. Now it's time to start betting the marginal hands as people are starting to tighten up as the paid positions close in. If you have a premium hand, and someone else is betting before you, either make a big raise or move all in, you don't want to be in the position where you have to make a call. If you make the big raise you'll intimidate the other players at the table, giving you creditability at the poker table.
As the final table closes in, it's time to make a choice. Are you going for as much money as you can, but safely? Or are you going all out for the top position. By this time the blinds and antes will be taking up a large portion of your stack. If you are medium stacked (compared to other players at the table) then you can either sit tight and let other players get blinded and anted out, letting you climb up the prize ladder, or play very aggressive and take down the blinds and antes in an attempt to build your chip stack. Both methods are viable, and either method can be profitable, this is a judgement call you will have to make at the table.
Not many people know a fundamentally correct poker strategy, which will give you the edge at the table. To profit from poker, you must change your game style at different points during the tournament, to take advantage of your opponent's lack of poker strategy knowledge.
At the start of the tournament, when blinds are low and chip stacks are fresh, people tend to be very tight. This means that if someone make a small raise, it's not worth re-raising unless you have a premium hand, the blinds are so low you're not getting a good enough return for the risk.
Sit tight and play solid poker, limping in with marginal hands and raising big with premium hands. Watch how the other players at the table play, which ones only raise with solid hands? Which ones like to bluff people off the pot? Continue this method and you should gradually enlarge your chip stack, with players paying off your big hands (the blinds are so small you can just keep folding trash).
After 3 to 4 blind levels, watch out for the loose players trying to take down the pot. You've been playing very tight, so you have the image as someone who plays only premium hands. Now it's time to start betting the marginal hands as people are starting to tighten up as the paid positions close in. If you have a premium hand, and someone else is betting before you, either make a big raise or move all in, you don't want to be in the position where you have to make a call. If you make the big raise you'll intimidate the other players at the table, giving you creditability at the poker table.
As the final table closes in, it's time to make a choice. Are you going for as much money as you can, but safely? Or are you going all out for the top position. By this time the blinds and antes will be taking up a large portion of your stack. If you are medium stacked (compared to other players at the table) then you can either sit tight and let other players get blinded and anted out, letting you climb up the prize ladder, or play very aggressive and take down the blinds and antes in an attempt to build your chip stack. Both methods are viable, and either method can be profitable, this is a judgement call you will have to make at the table.
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