What’s your best advice for playing right before the money?

[Vovk]

The pressure on the stock exchange can be strong — everyone is either trying to save money or trying to act freely. Do you play aggressively to steal bets, or are you trying to secure the cache?

 

[hardongear]

Play to win. Just making a min cash is nothing and not the way to be a long term winner. I never play to min cash. When you cash in MTT's you need to make it worthwhile not just min cash. Long term winning players I believe on avg only make the money 17-20% of the time. You got make that 17-20% cash percentage matter. You'll NEVER do that just playing to min cash. Learn the shove and re-shove ranges and use them when nearing the money to put as much pressure on others as possible. When you're deep bet enough that the shortest stacks need to be all-in to call. Max pressure.

Do have to be careful thou not to run into another big stack that wakes up with a real good hand worth calling with.

Cheers!!!

 

[SOLO22]

you have to be very dynamic in the different instances of the tournament.

 

[23maxim88]

If it’s important for you to make it into any kind of ITM , then you should play cautiously and only go all-in with monster hands. But if the minimum ITM isn’t that important to you, then you can play more loosely and take risks to try and win a bigger prize.

 

[perrywh]

I play to win! Period! Play the way that got you that far!

 

[pentazepam]

 

[Stringy]

don't play. or play if your BB no raises and you have a solid winner

 

[TeUnit]

It is both the best time to accumulate chips, and its also the best time to not do something reckless and dive on the bubble.

 

[Brigistul]

The game changes from Freeroll to Buy In Tournaments! Players when playing with their money have a different behavior in the game.They are more careful in preflop with hands that can win the pot.Therefore, it is good to play with premium hands preflop or if the raise is max 2 big blind to call with semi strong hands but with the small card of at least 10! I hope this is a useful tip! Good luck at the tables!

 

[infonazar]

The pressure on the stock exchange can be strong — everyone is either trying to save money or trying to act freely. Do you play aggressively to steal bets, or are you trying to secure the cache?

I play as the circumstances demand
It all depends on the situation and the opponents. If my stack allows me to play more aggressively, if not, I play more tightly.