Quote Originally Posted by XxStacksxX
Quote Originally Posted by animal_chin
Yeah but the chips early on are muy importante (at least in sitngoes, not sure how it applies in mtt). Here is an article that illustrates my point i think... (I'm not really sure if it does because I read it about a year ago and I don't want to read it again but here it is anyways.)
This is like the opposite of how things work in SNGs. I didn't read the article as I was being lazy, but the main concept with SNGs is: chips lost are more important than chips won. So if I assume correctly that you mean in SNGs it's important to accumulate a stack early, then you are heading in the wrong direction. If you mean chips are more important so you play tighter and keept them then you are right.

Jus to elaborate on that concept (chips lost are more....) a bit. In the beginning of a SNG the blinds are low in relation to the stacks so you aren't pressed for chips. Also stealing blinds is rather useless for the same reason. Also SNGs payout structure awards survivors. You survive 7 players in a SNG and you get an immediate 20% of the prize pool. However, in an MTT you survive alot of players and only get a very small % of the prize pool as it's more heavily weights to the top players. So in essence, you are trying to survive in a SNG, whereas, you need to get chips in a MTT to have any shot at any real money. In a SNG it's totally normal to not play a hand till the blinds are 50/100 and then immediately turn into push/fold poker.
Yeah this is what I meant. I should have said your chips are important so don't donk them off on loose calls and breakeven/slightly profitable plays. The reason you don't want to make slightly breakeven plays is because if your opponents are worse then you (which they should be, wtf are you playing against better people???) they will make more profitable mistakes later in the tournament that you can take advantage of if you have a nice stack. I think the article explains this.

In SNGs I can feel the table starting to "turn." Like one min everyone will be playing T7s and when you do play a hand (which should be rarely) you're getting called by 2+ people. Then the tables turns. And you can raise light, take blinds and stuff like that because people won't call you as they now want to protect their stack and make the money. But now you are playing for first rather, unlike your opponents which are playing to barely make the money.