Hold'em Tournaments - tactics and strategies

[bblight]

I've done about 15 tournaments on the site I play most of my poker.

I've been doing OK, slowly improving my play and having recently come into 10th and 6th place money out of fields averaging about 150 players.

I finally won one last night from a starting field of 45. This was only a $10 per entrance tourney, so I'm sure that I wasn't facing the better players.

As I came down home street, because the big and small blinds were happening every fourth, then third then second hands, I recognized that I had to change my style of playing the opening hand, playing almost anything and then playing on or folding after the flop.

With such a small field of players, it's easy to avoid traps - just fold to a bet or raise if you don't have the Nuts.

Of course, as in any game, luck helps, since the Nuts can change with a bad turn or river card.

The point I'm getting at (as an inexperienced player) is that most of the players I was up against didn't change their style of play as the game itself changed - still waiting for the perfect opening hand and flop while I was pounding on them with everything I got; I nickel dimed them out of the game.

My question is;
First, was I doing the right thing in opening with any two decent cards, or was I just lucky.
Second, is this usual: for average to good players to be unable to adjust to the changing situation on the table.

 

[ProPokerPlayer]

My question is;
First, was I doing the right thing in opening with any two decent cards, or was I just lucky?.
As a general rule i play jack/? or better. if i got that im thinking there is a better than ev chance ill be ok calling at least the big blind....on the other hand with 2 or 3 players left ive seen guys (doyle b.) call without even looking at their hands till the flop...its a feel, you've got guys you've been playing at least a few dozen hands with, you've got a pace set by this point so you just go with your gut.....and one thing you did right was to p/u on that the other guys were still looking for the homerun...and you punch and judy'd em to death........was this at intertops by chance? i was in a $10 tourny last night with about 45 people in it...

Second, is this usual: for average to good players to be unable to adjust to the changing situation on the table.

If these were "good to avg".....frankly most of the players today are what you would find in any bar room 25 years ago....neither avg nor good....just card players.....ending up at the final table with a table full of people who have never been to a final table is not unusual at all.....especially in a 10.00 game..

overall sounds like you have good instincts which will put you above 70% of online players on that alone!

AND if you were in that tourny last night....well your lucky i didnt have enough chips to compete with or this thread would be about the beating you took......lol:howdy: <!-- / message -->