how do you become a good tournament poker player

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Practice and experience and learning from your mistakes in the way you playing certain tournament is key. Just saying more you play in them better your get
 
To be good at MTT's you need a lot of volume and to be aggressive. Have a high won $ when saw flop stat. You need a HUD so that you can play a highly exploitive strategy. The only GTO you need is PF.
 
Learning the right opening ranges for different positions and stack sizes really helped me as well as studying push/fold decisions with icmizer. GL!
 
To become a good tournament player you need to have good patience to play at least a few hours of a tournament, good playing skills with different stacks and also keep an eye on the players at the table.
 
In my opinion, the most important thing is patience, and the ability to control recklessness, courses, or videos with the basics of poker also help, first of all, and if he wants to continue, well, then you already need to study literature about poker, the main tips have already been written here earlier, I see no point in repeating itself. But as a rule, everything will come over time. More practice and experience. And then everything will work out!
 
YRAGAGARIN said:
Нужно набраться терпения и хорошо знать, на что идешь, без поспешных решений.
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For a tournament player, it is important to have a game plan, constant work on oneself, analysis of one's hands, development of the ability to read opponents' opening ranges.
 
Tournaments can be compared to long-distance running. And there the main thing is endurance and a measured waste of strength. That is, when playing tournaments, we must first of all control our stack and avoid sharp jumps +/-.
 
That moment when you see so much advice here in the comments from players who hardly know how to play poker themselves. Always making stupid standard mistakes when playing freerolls Cardschat/ Hahaha
 
Uplifting outlook, nice read.


Alizona said:
My funny (joke) answer: You fold preflop. 😀
That's the standard answer when someone posts a hand where they got a bad beat and they ask "How could I have played this differently?" Answer: Fold pre. LOL

My serious answer: You don't care about money or how you finish, that's how you become successful. You don't worry about bad beats or coolers, and yes, you fold most hands preflop. 🙂 Quite simply, you succeed in tournaments by playing better hands than your opponents, but you have to realize that most tournaments, you still won't win anything. You'll wait hours to get AA and either you'll lose to someone who somehow decided it was a good time to play their 85o hand against you, or else you will win the hand but because you folded for the last hour straight, even winning that pot doesn't give you enough chips to fold for another hour straight. That's tournament poker! But I'm a big believer that "tight is right" and eventually you will play a tournament such as Darvin Moon when he finished 2nd in the WSOP Main Event back in 2009 - Darvin was a novice but somehow he cashed for 5 million dollars after qualifying into the tournament via a 130 dollar satellite. As I recall, Darvin said he picked up AA about 25 times over the 7-day tournament and he won almost every all-in with them. Just a phenomenal run of luck, basically... but that's how you succeed at tournaments - you lose for years straight, but you go on a "sun run" for one short stretch and win back more than all those losses. Quite honestly, most don't have the time or the patience, and they either give up or else they go broke trying. Tournament poker is a hard way to make a good living, unless you're just not lucky and then its a terrible way to make no living at all. LOL My opinions obv. Some seem to have mastered tournaments and they don't play tight at all, they play super aggressive and it seems to work for them... but I've never figured out how to do that. I just stopped caring about my results, and that's when I usually score a fine result. Can't explain it more than that, but there it is, for whatever its worth. 😎
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I play the CardsChat freerolls. I went to the leaderboard and wrote down the top money leader players. Go to their profile and get their names on ACR, Betonline, SB etc. When I'm in a game with these players I mark them and watch them play. Have a goal to finish ahead of them and observe. By observing the top money winners ( these cats know what is going on) and playing ABC poker to start with will get you comfortable. Poker Tracker 4 helps a lot. The skies the limit with what you can do with it.

Check out Katie and Colin on the 30 day course. I've been watching those and learned a lot. That Colin is lucky to have Katie, she's the brains of the outfit. Seriously Katie presents her material in a good way with a good voice and is easy to follow.
Have Fun. If it ain't fun ,it ain't worth doing.
 
study, perseverance, patience, more study and a lot of discipline. And something that I think is very important is learning to eliminate mental noise, the ability to concentrate in tournaments is essential, you must spend many hours and if you can't stop thinking about certain things, distraction is fatal.
 
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