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Hello, MTT Community. I am mainly a live cash game 1/2 player, though I do dabble with 50 NL and 100 NL online from time to time. I am highly interested in getting more into tournaments, and want to be able to make it to my first world series next year.

With that being said, I have begun studying. I purchased Jonathan Little's "Montreal Tournament Bundle" back at the end of December, and finally got around to going through all of the content. There were a few things in the bundle that I have deeper questions about/wondering how relevant the information is to people that don't play the huge buy in events that he plays.

1. Should we look to splash around early in tournaments? I remember reading literally the exact opposite from Harrington when I was first getting into poker in general a few years ago. The example he gave, I believe they were 200 BB deep, there were two limpers to him OTB and he limped with J7s.

2. He was very unclear on the subject in general, but everyone was 100-200 BB deep in a tournament and he was in position and 3 bet, and said "in general, we should be going for a pot sized raise here." I usually go that route in position in cash, and a little bigger oop in cash. I remember very vividly hearing from several winning tournament players that your 3 bets in tournaments should be significantly smaller than in cash. How do we decide on our 3 bet sizings deep? 100 BB? Medium stack?

3. Little states that the best time to get very aggressive is when we have a medium stack right before the bubble. How do we treat this same exact scenario, but with a large stack or small stack?

4. When we're in BB and SB limps, is it true that we should exclusively only be raising our best hands and pure junk?

5. He says this was learned directly from a solver - when we're HU to a flop after calling a raise from BB, should we x-r our entire continue range small when the flop comes paired of 2's-9's, then go big on the turn because of the fact that we have these cards in our range and the PFR doesn't have too many combos?



Do you think these rules apply to small stakes and medium stakes MTT's? Is there any other advice you'd give to a cash game player looking to get to become solid at tournaments by next year's world series? Thank you very much for reading and responding to these questions in advance.

1. We make a decent amount of our profit in the early stages by playing vs weaker players and the fish. If you are confident postflop that you can play more speculative hands against weaker players then do so. If you have to question this, most likely you aren’t good enough post flop and will end up in tricky spots or punting so staying tigger is better until you are more confident in playing deep multi-street poker.

2. You should 3bet smaller as stack depths decrease. With 100bb+ stacks and no ICM implications you should treat it as a cash game. If anything, at mid-low stakes you should 3bet bigger since the average tournament player plays worse preflop and will make looser calls. There is no set rule here though - if you have a logical reason to justify going slightly smaller or bigger then go for it.

3. With big stacks you should be running the table and playing aggro on the bible if the table is allowing this. As a small stack, cashing becomes more of a focus on the bubble and there are certainly some strange spots with very short stacks where doubling won’t do that much for you but busting on the bubble will.

4.Against a good balanced sb lumping range sure - against a low-midstake random, just assume lumps are on the weaker side and have less of the value hands in their range and go from there.against lots of weaker players, raising 90% vs a complete is fine.

5. Smaller stake players tend to not be able to make big folds and play far more honest (just their cards). So on boards that favour your range, you should play more aggressive. There is a decent chance if you CRsmall 922 that a random small stake player will peel KQ but fold to a turn bet. Having reads on opponents will help in these spots too as to whether you think they’ll just station it up, be good enough to be aware your CR is a range advantage spot or if they are just an ABC regfish

Just wanted to add my 2 cents about 5

You may face resistance when you c/r from bb if they are aware that you are aware of your range advantage.

Was at the wsop for the summer and I bombed the pot many times by overbet or simply going all in when bb c/r me(the pf raiser who cbet) on said flops. I had air all of those times but in my experience when you face semi competent players they don't play that straightforward and usually don't have much when they c/r. All of the times they snap folded. Alarm goes off when they flat me and i mostly slow down afterwards.

That being said if your hand has some value don't get blown off your equity by c/r 100% there and could just flat and reevaluate on later street. Every once in a while, if you notice your opponent tend to fold in such situation and want to mix in a c/r, sure.