How not to tilt at the beginning of the tournament?

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I find it hard not to go all-in early with great cards like AA or KK but I have been trying to have more patience and wait for the right time :)
 
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I find it hard not to go all-in early with great cards like AA or KK but I have been trying to have more patience and wait for the right time :)
if you're lucky enough to get aa or kk early, when stacks are deep, and you can get it in preflop, do not hesitate.

yes, you will bust out early sometimes but who cares? it's no different than busting out before the money in any other position and you counter that variance with good bankroll management.
 
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first of all, I think you should not start the game session in a bad mood, at the beginning of the tournament you need to play more calmly, bluff much less, at this stage of the game bluffs will rarely pass
 
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It's about playing to your height. If it's AA or KK, it can't be helped if it ends early.
 
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Guys need advice on how to avoid being eliminated at the start of the tournament
Everything is very simple.
1. Follow bankroll management, never play with the money that is important to you.
2. Just be patient and don't play with junk, wait for strong cards.
 
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Be patient; only play good cards in position; don't overbet or call huge overbets.
 
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Hello! As for me, getting good hands at the beginning of a tournament and busting out are not necessarily related to busting out at any other stage. It's situational, and there's no clear answer that if it's the beginning, your AA or KK will definitely win. As top players say, it's important to establish a tight reputation and play during the early stages.
 
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Use TOP-16 as starting hands,
i.e.: AA, KK, AK, QQ, AQ, JJ, AJ, KQ, KJ, 1010, 99, 88, 77, and play tight aggressively. And don't waste your chips on some fancy play
 
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play only with strong hands, try to play only aggressively with strong hands and I don't bluff to win if you don't know how to keep your chips to yourself if you lose too much, don't be too angry, be patient if a bad beat happens, just try to fold a couple of hands so as not to lose all the chips too much
 
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Be patient.
Train yourself mentally.
Play at a level that suits your skills and bankroll.
If you have these and you played the given hand well, you won't get tilt.
 
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Guys need advice on how to avoid being eliminated at the start of the tournament
So here is a question for you, If you are getting knocked out early in tournament, why is it happening. I early get knocked out early but I have gotten knocked out 1st hand dealt in a live tournament. Sometimes it happens.

Dont always look to play big pots early is an issue I see. Top pair top kicker is a good strong hand but if you betting and there is raising and re raising, yes you maybe a head but more often than not you dead. Dont over play a pair would be my advise.
 
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Guys need advice on how to avoid being eliminated at the start of the tournament
Avoid wanting to play too many hands, especially limping, and don't keep calling with speculative hands.🙂
 
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:) just sit tight, breathe, observe the flow at the table and hang on to your chair!
 
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Hello. I think the first part of the tournament is the simplest part. It's time to just play with the good cards and watch the others' players game.
 
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As simple as

R.Holynskyi

said it, thats the best way.
 
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Tilt is something that can happen to even the best of us. There can be countless reasons for its occurrence.There is a meme about the “golden rule”: when you need to stop so as not to go into endless tilt due to a series of defeats. According to this humorous rule, you had to click the cross in the upper right corner of the game client after 3 defeats in a row.
 
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Guys need advice on how to avoid being eliminated at the start of the tournament
Hello to you, if I can help you with some advice it will really make me happy, first of all:
before each scheduled tournament you must eliminate all poker disruptors like TV, phone, ...
you must also choose a starting range which are the cards that you open with or raise with or go all in but I advise you not to go all in from the start for example with AA you will have more chance of losing than of winning so it you have to play tight and discipline with nothing but big hands, never bluff, never bluff. is to try to identify the good or less good players on your table so do a reading of your opponents like the agro limp or agro raiser
 
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If you got really good hands at the beginning of the tournament, then there is nothing bad that you will lose, but if your hands are not monsters, then I advise you to fold them at the beginning of the tournament, waiting until the first mass of players playing super aggressively leave the game and than you can play in your own style.
 
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you need to get ready for the game very well
 
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Guys need advice on how to avoid being eliminated at the start of the tournament
You need to identify any mistakes that you might be making and then fix them.

It's perfectly possible to be dealt AA in the first level, get involved in a 5bet pot vs KK and lose. Did you do anything wrong? No. Shrug it off and reg the next tournament.

Are you opening 80% of hands from every position, and just blasting off on every flop regardless of whether you hit or not, or whether your opponents show any kind of strength? You probably need to work on your opening ranges.

Are you calling too light preflop, just so you can see a flop and then getting sticky with your middle pair against a super-nit? You need to tighten up and pay attention to opponents tendencies.

Perhaps you could share some of your bust out hands, or hands where you lost a big pot early in a tournament and we can analyse it for you.
 
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avoid going all in pre flop as much as possible, play more raises and make more chips, but of course you can't fold a KK, QQ, AA if someone gives you an all in
 
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It's very simple, don't get your hands on it and you won't lose. But seriously, each hand has its own story and you probably won't find universal advice.
 
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At the beginning of a tournament, all speculative hands are a great risk to be played pre-flop AI.
AA, KK are hands that are worth playing an AI early in the tournament,
the mathematical mistake that you make is negligible if you run into aces with kings.
All other hands are drawing and need more help.
Don't overplay AX hands.
 
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