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With most MTTs, you will start with a huge stack compared to the blinds. You may start out with 10,000 chips and the blinds at 25/50, making your stack 200 big blinds. That can be a large stack to manage if you're used to Sit 'n Gos or micro-stakes cash games.

• In this article we will point out some of the best live and online poker tournament strategy tips you can use to improve your game as quickly as possible. Tip 1: Play The Right Starting Hands Whether it be lack of patience, or an unfamiliarity with opening ranges, many tournament poker players still open too wide.
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A Dead Simple Guide to Poker MTT Strategy: Level 1 to Final Table The early blind levels in a multi-table poker tournament are the easiest blind levels to play. You really want to fold most hands in this blind level until the fishy players are weeded out. The key is to stay calm, collected and in the zone until the middle rounds.

With the big stack-to-blinds ratio, it's important to play tight early on. More confident players will start MTTs the way they finish them: like a juggernaut. They will raise the majority of pots, steal blinds when they can, and very slowly build a stack. They might go through a lot of swings too, however, with their stacks fluctuating from chip leader to shortie.

Try to avoid the style: sticking to a tight, no-nonsense strategy early on is key. That means playing solid hands in good positions. When in Early Position (EP, seats 2-5), Middle Position (MP, seats 6-8) or Late Position (LP, seats 9-10), stick to big pairs like Q-Q, K-K and A-A. In LP, you can also raise unraised pots with K-Q, Q-J, J-10 suited etc. or even throw in some medium pairs like 8-8 or 9-9.

In the early and middle positions consider just calling with small and medium pairs like 4-4, 5-5, 6-6 and 7-7, and you can comfortably raise in all positions with A-K.

As for raises, a raise of 2.5-3x the big blind is standard so as not to scare off too many opponents but also to attract at least one call.

Poker Tournament Strategy

View our entire collection of poker tournament strategy articles below. If you want to assure yourself of more money finishes in MTTs or fine tune certain aspects of your game than you should bookmark this page now. Check out the cash game strategy section for more basic principles.

Watch MTT Videos & Get MTT Training at PokerPwnage!

If you really want to get good at MTTs and move up the stakes than I recommend using a poker tool.

Pokerfives, (previously PokerPwnage) is hands down the best MTT training site in my opinion, and has 500 over MTT videos that you can watch and learn from. Watch unique videos by Matt “mattg1983” and Graham Jon “sketchy1” Eaton on chipping up, blind stealing and squeeze play, or you can even watch re-runs and sessions of major events like the Stars Sunday Million and Full Tilt Poker’s GTD events. PokerPwnage also have one of the best MTT forums and run weekly special tournaments for members. Read the PokerPwnage Review.

Beginners Poker Tournament Articles

• Earning Money in Poker Tournaments
• Poker Tournament Starting Hands (Part I/II)
• Poker Tournament Starting Hands (Part II/II)
• About MTT ROI (Return on Investment)
• Common Poker Tournament Myths

Poker Tournament Stages:

Online Poker Mtt Tournament Strategy Games

Poker Tournament Guides:

Online Poker Multi Table Tournament Strategy

Poker Tournament Moves & Concepts

Advanced Tournament Strategy:

Online Poker Mtt Tournament Strategy Game

• Shoving in MTTs

Online Poker Mtt Tournament Strategy Odds

Heads Up MTT Strategy

To get a quick mental boost for playing mid-stakes poker tournaments or cash games, you can also try downloading and reading a selection of poker ebooks. In my opinion these are a great investment in your game.