Ok, so you have got to the end of the middle part of a long tournament, and built your stack a bit by stealing some blinds. So what strategy do you need to take to make sure that you get past the bubble and into the money? To the final table even? If you have [...]

It is a common enough strategy to try to double your chip stack early on. This is especially true in tourneys that have very large fields.  It is a reasonable strategy, but it has one glaring flaw. Many players will be familiar with the marginal hands that they are happy to go all-in on.  Say [...]

After the early stages of any big poker tournament, when the play, and the players, have settled down somewhat, begins the long, tedious and drawn out process of crawling your way to the money. The bigger the field the longer this middle period will be. By this stage many of the lesser skilled players will [...]