Posted Tue Jun 06, 2006 9:01 am GMT by firedrop
Seems any time I raise in a tournament lately, I pick up the blinds and little else. Maybe I get one caller, but then I get no action on the flop.
I vary my raises from 3-5xBB, though I've been trying to go more 3xBB lately. This is actually hard for me, since, for some reason, I learned 5xBB as the normal opening raise.
Anyhow, it gets kind of frustrating in these MTTs to see people piling up big mounds of chips and I'm whittling away a little here, a little there.
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Posted Wed Jun 07, 2006 9:19 pm GMT by LeafsFan1122
Keep stealing blinds. That is crucial. Eventually though in your MTTs there will come times where you must risk alot or all of your chips on a coinflip or 60-40. If you win it, you're in great shape, if you lose, you're out or crippled. Nothing wrong though with building your stack through blinds.
Posted Wed Jun 07, 2006 9:23 pm GMT by mikenike
consider it a treat, just because u get no action from the people doesn't make it a bad thing, better then getting action and suckedout or have a badbeat on you. So as leaf said steal as many blinds as u can.
Posted Wed Jun 07, 2006 9:37 pm GMT by BeerWench13
Raise more preflop. Eventually, they will get tired of folding. Use it to your advantage.
If you want more action, raise big preflop, on the flop and all the way through the hand with nothing. Then, when they fold on the turn or river, show it. You'll get more action from there on, just don't complain about it.
If you're taking down blinds later in MTT's this is a good thing. Keep raising it up and stealing. It's a huge part of the mid-game strategy.
Posted Sat Jun 10, 2006 1:52 am GMT by Jauron
If you throw away a lot of hands and then come to life, good players will throw a lot of hands away and respect your raises. When this is happening you need to loosen up your hand range and raise with more hands until you loose a little of that.
Of course getting no callers is a great way to not loose the hand, early it sucks but later it's not too bad. I'd almost rather have this than some of the tourney's I'm in where nobody will fold anything early on. AA is nice until you just got 6 callers to the flop when you popped it good preflop and now you have zero idea where you are.
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