MTTs are a lot of fun to play and an easy way to get you started!

1.       Use late registration (start with 50-70BB stack), that would help you not to play deep stack pots if you are not good at it yet. Also that would help you to play more tournaments.

2.       Play middle stages aggressively, because you want a large stack to take down tournaments.

3.       Practice your heads up game and play shorthanded.

4.       Your stack sizes. You always count in the amount of BB (Big Blinds) it contains. For example, Your stack size is 3000 and blinds are 25/50, which means that you have 60BB.

5.       Adjust your strategy by the amount of BB you have. Usually, your strategy will be changing depending on your stack size (0-15BB, 15-35BB, 35-50BB, 50-100BB)

6.       50BB – 100BB is a “Healthy stack”. That is usually an amount with which you start a tournament. When you have a healthy stack you can play comfortably all the way to the river. You can bet all the way to the river and have enough to make a good sized bet on the river. You can play a wide range of hands like suited connectors or small pairs for their implied odds. (That’s your expected value in case you hit your hands.) Playing with the healthy stack you have a full range of moves like 3 bets and 4 bets preflop, check-raise, check-raise bluff even etc.

7.       35BB – 50BB – is a “Medium stack” and that’s the usual rage for most tournaments after initial few rounds all the way up to the final table, so it’s critical to know how to play it well, if you want to be a good tournament player. Normally with that stack size you won’t get to see the river, if one or two players like their hands they are likely to push all in by the turn. You need to remove the worst draws from your range like gapped connectors, like J9* and lowest suited connectors and lowest pocket pairs, because you no longer have implied odds or great implied odds to play those hands. You should increase your aggressiveness. Try to win hands preflop. 3 and 4 bets preflop are still possible.

8.       15BB – 35BB – is considered to be a “Small stack”. You no longer have implied odds, so you can’t play suited connectors and small pairs, what you can do is to resteal. Same as it sounds – somebody before you tries to steal, so you just go all in and it’s usually works very well.

9.       0 – 15BB is called “Danger Zone”. Now you only can go all in or fold. When you go all in (It’s called “open shove”) – you have to be the first one to act, so that would give you an opportunity to steal blinds. When you are in the late position you can shove profitably pretty much any two cards, maybe ignore the worst few. When you get to about 7BB you can shove from an early position as well with about 2/3rd of the deck. Use the chart below.