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Message: [QUOTE="Dorkus Malorkus, post: 340927, member: 6020"] The thing is, in most tournaments the play in general tightens up in the mid stages, and the general rule is if the table is tight play loose and vice versa. As soon as the antes kick in (assuming your tournament structure has them) you should be looking to steal blinds from late position if it's folded around to you, and generally playing aggressively to the tightest players blinds. You will get caught once in a while, it happens, but tight players won't play back at you with nothing. It's best to usually try steals with hands you wouldn't mind seeing a flop with if called (Ax, suited connectors etc), but with the tightest players you can try with anything. Remember if you're in the cutoff on a 10 person table and it's folded around to you, you're essentially playing at a 4-handed table for the hand, and should adjust the range of starting hands you'll play with accordingly. Here's a routine one. SB and BB are weak, I have an average hand, they will fold unless they have a big hand in which case they're coming over the top and I'm folding. The chance of them having a hand they won't play to a raise with is much greater then the chance of them having a hand they will raise with though, so in the long run you win, and the blinds are big enough compared to my stack to make winning this pot quite a big deal. PokerStars No-Limit Hold'em Tourney, Big Blind is t600 (6 handed) converter CO (t6121) Hero (t5247) SB (t10030) BB (t4501) UTG (t6242) MP (t2012) Preflop: Hero is Button with Qs, 7d. 3 folds, Hero raises to t1850, 2 folds. Final Pot: t2100 Results below: No showdown. Hero wins t2100. You can't be afraid of not making the money - you should be aiming to win. This way you will make the money probably less often in the long run, but will place higher when you do, and your net gains will be higher. Basically, lose the fear and play to win. If you're playing a freeroll, you've lost nothing but a few hours of time if you don't make the money - and you haven't even really 'lost' the time as you've gained playing experience from it. Good luck. [/QUOTE]

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