Limit Holdem Tournament Strategy VS Cash Game Limit

[PokerAmateur4]

Couldn't find any search results for tourney style Limit strategy concepts. I was curious as to the difference in strategy concepts between these and cash games.

[citanul]

the tournament theory things that go in to changing styles between limit ring and limit tournament are the same things that you should be thinking about when thinking about the difference between nl ring and nl tournament.

1) you're broke, you're done
2) they're broke, they're done
3) the gap
4) the bubble
5) payout structure implications
6) chips change values
7) chips have decreasing marginal utility
x) etc

all that jazz. read tournament poker for advanced players.

c

[johnnybeef]

here is an article that durron sent me when i was in a limit tourney that i think sums things up pretty well.


http://www.playwinningpoker.com/articles/03/06.html (happy reading)

[PokerAmateur4]

If either of these players is nearly all in, you'll need a fairly decent hand to raise the pot."

Is sometimes untrue, in very weak tournaments like 10+1, 5+1, I've noticed that the bad players fold with 4/5 left even when they have 500 chips and the BB is 300.

Edit: And they're in the BB