What is the best single peice of tourney advice you've been given?

It was something someone posted here about something in HoH.

"When you get a good hand early lay the whip to it."

Let me tell you at 5$ sng's & micro MTT's you can do quite well with that ideal.

I would also like to add:

"Dont play with scared money."

If you are afraid to lose the money you are playing with, you will lose it more often then not.

[bmxreed36]

Don't get too crazy with top pair.

I've recently had to remind myself:

"Pocket Jacks are not the nuts."

Probably not the best advice I ever received, but it's the single sentence I've been trying to drive into my head recently, so I'll repeat it here.

I don't know if it's advice, but i read it and it's helped me a good bit.

1. You'll never get a 2nd chance at this tournament, so be patient

2. No tournament has ever been won in the first 3 hours of play.

[LethalRose]

1) patience

2) You cant win every pot, dont try

Every pot you're in can knock you out, so be selectively aggressive

[bweiser8311962]

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Great advice. I was in a tourney the other night and had A/10o on the button. Folded around to me and I raised. Got called by the BB. Flop was QQ10, so I sent out a feeler bet. Turn was a 10. I've got a fullhouse. Checked to me, I bet and in the process pot-committed myself and he put me all-in and turned over AQ.

[Pat Southern]

Fossilman- play the situation not the hand.

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"Pocket Jacks are not the nuts."


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Yep, that hand has cost me more early tournament chips than any other.

On a similar piece of hand advice, don't overplay AQ, but don't underplay it either. It's still strong.

Will