I agree that advice is pretty bad. Playing tight passive is pretty much always bad. Tripling up early is very doable in a lowish buy in tourney. Then you actually have enough chips to abuse the tight passive players in the second hour.
I do sometimes slow down at the final table when I have a ton of chips but that is because I was playing so laggy at the final table bubble that I should slow down. But I slow down to tight aggressive not tight passive.
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Here's a link with good and brief MTT advice, stage by stage.
http://www.bet-the-pot.com/multi-tab...ts-page63.html
It helped me focus on stepping up the ladder, where earlier I had been guiltity of playing for 1st only. I found actually focusing on one rung of the ladder at a time really helped me. In a $20 MTT-180 at Stars, I was 19 of 19 ih chips with 19 left. 18 make the $. Well, I was the low man on the totem pole all the way to 3rd, made $400, but 2 months ago I woulda flamed out a lot earlier trying to becoome chip leader with 10 left.
Alright, there's my rambling 4th of July advice.
Good luck Coldwolf.
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I do not like the MTT advice given in that thread. For example, big stacks, or anyone, playing tight/passive at the start of a final table is exactly the type of opponent I want and exactly the style I try to avoid playing.
Also, tight/passive early seems to be a recipe for being a pushbotting shortstack no matter what later. You need to grab chips if you want to accumulate chips. Sooner or later, you have to accumulate chips to beat the escalating blinds. This advice seems to be good for a player that doesn't know how to play deepstacked no limit at all.
My respectful disagreement
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