Higher Stakes MTT Strategy

by FTR Poker Admin | Apr 7, 2021 | Featured MTT, MTT, Poker Strategy

So I have been very successful in lower stakes MTTs and I’m bankrolled substantially enough to start venturing into higher stakes. Thus far I’ve tried five higher stakes tourneys, a few 20s, a fifty and a 100 (Though not bankrolled for it, I had to...

Playing the Small Blind in an MTT Part 1

by FTR Poker Admin | Apr 6, 2021 | Featured MTT, MTT, Poker Strategy

We’ve all been in this situation before: We’re on the bubble, our stack is down to 10 big blinds, it is folded around to us in the small blind, and we look down at J8o. Is it good enough to push or should we wait for a better spot? In this series...

Thoughts on Small Pairs in MTTs

by FTR Poker Admin | Mar 29, 2021 | Featured MTT, MTT, Poker Strategy

I see people misplaying small pairs (22-66) a lot so I want to go over my thoughts on them and maybe we can start a discussion because some people probably disagree with some of these thoughts. I believe small pairs are extremely overrated hands that are often...

Win MTT Poker 08 – Bankroll Management

by FTR Poker Admin | Mar 29, 2021 | Featured MTT, MTT, Poker Strategy

Point 24: Celebrate Your Bad Beats I realize the title of this point sounds moronic, but let me expand. When you take a bad beat, someone had to draw uphill on you. They committed their chips in a situation where they had negative expectation. This my friends is the...

chardrian’s True Value of AK

by FTR Poker Admin | Mar 25, 2021 | Featured MTT, MTT, Poker Strategy

This post is dedicated to Zidane and others who believe AK is basically unfoldable (especially early in an MTT). I truly hope he realizes that my criticism directed at him is not personal. There is a lot of talk about using position, the ability to win pots with any...