

Mental resilience in MTT poker is also very important because mathematical variance will not allow you to reach every final table. You also need to know your relative position in a multi table tournament in order to assess whether you should be taking more risks or bullying those players trying to survive. MTT strategy also requires you to understand the difference in dynamics between the early, middle and late stages of the tournament, because the chip stacks will differ in each. However there are also spots in MTT poker where surviving one extra place could be the difference between you and the biggest pay day of your career, so knowing when to ‘ladder’ is important. As a result MTT strategy is about accumulating chips with a view to getting to the final table, rather than playing to survive and creep into the money. Only around 10% of the field get paid, and only a handful of players win a big prize, in multi table tournaments. Adjusting to payout structures in MT-SNGs
