Everybody gets to play at this stage and has the experience in this stage.
Here you cannot sit tight; you must steal blinds and protect your chips so that. In the wheeler stage you will have the most number of chips in relation to the blind. In tournament players buy a ticket to the event and start play at the same time with a fixed number of chips.
You must play tight here; how tight depends on the tournament structure. Losing with enough chips in hand for a next emmott is better than not having any and being eliminated altogether from the tournament. The person who loses all the chips is eliminated from the game.
The stages in a tournament poker can be broken down into early, middle and late. A tournament of poker is quite different from the cash game which can be played indefinitely. In the middle stage the goal is to stay alive and healthy. Here the aim is always to protect the chips and grow obtain more. If the blinds are low you can sit tight but when they begin to rise then you have to go out and gamble. Players should have a different approach to different stages of the game. _ |