Chip Strategy in Tournament Poker Play

Do you have a strategy for how you’re going to get the chips in tournament play?

Tournament play and live cash play are two different ball games.  Going into a tournament, you might be thinking about how you are going to get these chips.  You aren’t going to do an instant evaluation of each player at your table, but it is something that you are going to do over the course of play.  It’s something that you want to do as soon as possible, because you want to pick out one or two, hopefully two, opponents or customers.  They are those players who you build on and have chosen to attack in your play.  You’re going to use them and going to do it repeatedly.

As soon as you sit down in the tournament you’re looking around you, and you’re trying to find like two specific players who would be your main customers, the ones who will supply a lot of your money, and so that’s really a goal of yours when you sit down to finals too.

It’s necessary to find those players that you are going to take the chips from.  And it certainly wouldn’t be one of the top tournament players in the world who might be at the table, but it would be some other players that show a little bit of weakness, just a little bit of weakness.