My latest poker strategy article, Improving Your MTT Skills, is now appearing in the July edition of the 2+2 Magazine. It’s a little different in that it doesn’t discuss particular hands or strategy concepts. Rather, it recommends some non-traditional ways to hone MTT skills that MTT specialists rarely get to practice but that are critically important:
I believe it is possible to improve your expected value and your theoretical Return on Investment (ROI) far more quickly by identifying the most important/expensive mistakes you are likely to make and focusing on improving your decision-making ability in these situations first. That means you ought to be far more concerned about playing better in the late stages of a tournament, especially the final table, than you are about the early stages.
The article is full of specific suggestions, so be sure to check it out and let me know what you think!
Hey Andrew,
Good article! I think one of the main adjustment that MTT players have to make at FT whether shorthanded/HU is that they need to forget a lot of the MTT “rules”, that serve them well in the earlier stages. For instance this maxim on not raise/folding on <20bb stack, i think that can be relaxed significantly at the FT.. your thoughts?