Ontberries Poker Room

Most internet poker rooms support multi-table tournaments, but there are only a few poker rooms that have enough traffic to fill up these tournaments on a regular basis. Make sure you join a highly trafficked poker room so that you can ensure you’ll always be able to find multi-table tournament tournaments starting. When you play multi-table tournaments you need to adapt an entirely new strategy compared to when you’re playing regular sit and go tournaments or cash games.

* During the early levels of a multi-table tournament you want to make sure that you play fairly loose. You want to limp into as many pots as you can preflop so that you can try and hit a monster hand. A lot of people might go all-in during the early stages so if you have a premium hand, don’t be afraid about making the call. You should always try and play and connectors and suited cards in MTT’s when you can limp into the pot. If you end up hitting on the flop then you’ll usually be able to win a huge pot and if you don’t then you can just fold.

* The one thing you need to be willing to do when you play in multi-table tournaments on PokerStars is make moves. When I say you need to make moves I simply mean you can’t sit back and wait for pocket aces. You need to be willing to play some marginal hands when you think you’re at least 50% or better in the hand. Another thing you need to be ready for when you play these types of tournaments is the potential to experience a bad beat. Bad beats happen a lot in multi-table tournaments and you need to learn to accept them. I’ve seen pocket aces lost to way worse hands in the past so anything is possible in poker.

* Generally the tournament will pick up after the first break. Some poker rooms allow registration to remain open until the first break which is part of the reason why tournaments really pick up after the first break. At this point you need to make or break your shot at winning the tournament if you haven’t already. If you have a big stack then you should try and bully the small stacks and get them all-in preflop when you can. Don’t be too loose with the hands you call with though because you don’t waste to throw your chips away.

* As the PokerStar tournament winds down and the bubble is upon you, it’s time to start slowing down a bit if you have the chip stack. Most players will slow down near the bubble and you don’t want to take any unnecessary risks at this point in the tournament. Only play your premium hands and try to pick up a few blinds when you have position on your opponents.

* Once the money is reached the tournament will begin to pick up again until the end. Once you make the money you need to decide whether to pick up your game or continue to play slowly and your decision will be based on your chip stack. If you have a lot of chips then you can afford to only play your premium hands. You’ll be able to watch opponents get knocked out of the tournament and you’ll move up in the money. If you have a short stack and you’ve made the money then you can pick it up at this point again so that you can try and make a push for the final table.