Tournament Strategy Recommendations
As someone who plays pretty much only cash games, my tourney skills aren't as great as I'd like them to be.
I can still cash and play decently well in tournaments, but am looking to take my tournament game to the next level.
I was just wondering how all the tourney players on here got to be where they're at and what resources they used.
Any recommendations for online training sites, books, or whatever would be appreciated.
Cheers.
I can still cash and play decently well in tournaments, but am looking to take my tournament game to the next level.
I was just wondering how all the tourney players on here got to be where they're at and what resources they used.
Any recommendations for online training sites, books, or whatever would be appreciated.
Cheers.
Comments
The online training sites I've tried have nowhere been as profitable as ACTIVELY applying the details that I read from good poker books, as opposed to passively watching a video or reading a book once. If you decide to take a shot at live tournaments, the $90+$10 electronic tourneys may be the best to start with at Mohawk, Western Fair or Georgian Downs Racetracks. If you decide to take your shot at online tournaments, avoid PartyPoker as you will be screwed with the currrency exchange and other charges upon both depositing and withdrawing.
Thanks BlondeFish, I was kinda hoping you'd see this and share your insight
Appreciate the feedback. I have a ton of books from when I first started getting into poker, but I kept seeing people saying that they were outdated. As I look up blogs, even of online pros, I'm starting to realize the outdated books are only those on cash games and limit hold 'em and not so much on the theory of playing tourneys and strategies for tourneys.
I do believe I have 2 of Harrington's 3 books. I want to give those a thorough read ASAP (luckily my TTC ride to school is now an hour each way, plenty of time to read and re-read those ones).
I have Negreanu's as well, which I saw somewhere was a decent book. Have you heard anything about that one?
All in all, I think I'll go through Harrington's, maybe skim a bit of Hold 'Em in Super System (2), pick up the little green book and snag another book on theory or two.
I'm hoping to get through a bunch of books in about a month or so and get practicing online and then at Mohawk and the like, with the goal of (hopefully) giving the WSOP-C a shot down here in February (I know, being optimistic on that front lol).
Thanks for the feedback though!
Hopefully in a few months we'll be battling it out at the FT in Brantford on a regular basis!
Good Luck!
Nice. Who's the author on that one? I've also heard about "Kill Everyone" which is apparently a phenomenal book to read after you've gone through the more basic ones like Harrington, etc.
Nice. I'm thinking that I'm going to run a separate tourney bankroll to monitor my progress as I start playing live tournaments, so <$500 tourneys are the only ones I'll be playing to start off anyway.
How basic is it? I've read some stuff on tourneys and can cash and what not, but I'm looking for something to take my game to the next level. Along the lines of building early stacks for middle stages, etc. so when the money hits, I'm in a better spot to make deeper runs. I feel like early stages and up to the bubble is fairly easy to master, but the problem is that I'm not positioning myself well enough for once ITM play starts.
Keep in mind this is all online too. Don't know how different the live game is.
Yeah. I wanted to get started earlier and get some practice in to potentially play the WSOP-C in MTL, but I got lazy lol. Don't think I'll have time to improve enough to make it worthwhile to play any of them...
That's good. Just remember that almost always MTTs< $200 have pretty crappy structures.
I get that these electronic games are basically live poker players playing at online game speeds but I can't be the only one who enjoys playing with and handling real cards/chips? I haven't given it a shot yet but I don't think I'd find it as fun.
Erick Lindgren's book really helped me out with my early tournament play. Killer Poker was the first ever book I read and I really liked that one too. They're both pretty basic but they're the ones that helped me the most when I was starting.
A few players are addicted to playing with chips so they bring them to the electronic table.
Yeah I hear ya on handling chips. Haven't done it in ages and I think I'm heading to a casino here in South FL (Pompano, beautiful room by th elook of the pics and even during weekDAYS they have 4-7 tabels of 1-2, 4-7 tables of 2-5 and a 5-10 table) so I'm looking forward to handling chips again
As for the books, thanks for the recommendation, I'll take a look. I think I'm gonna go with the Harrington's, pick up the little green book and "Kill Everyone" along with Arnold Snyder's and then get playing (practice ultimately is what will help me improve and apply the stuff I learn).