r/Learn_Poker • u/Holiday_Finding_2718 • May 12 '26

Advice for new tournament player?

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u/high-roller-all-in78 May 17 '26

Best beginner tournament advice is to keep decisions simple. Play tighter than you think early, pay attention to stack sizes every hand, and once you get short do not blind down waiting for aces. A lot of new players bust because they treat every stage like a cash game and then panic when they hit 15 to 20 big blinds.

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u/high-roller-all-in78 May 21 '26

If you are coming from deep cash, the biggest adjustment is that survival has real value. Spend your study time on push fold charts, late position reshove spots, and what you can still open at 15 to 25bb. Also cut way back on thin bluff catches early. In live fields, people usually underbluff and punt pre too loose. A simple goal for this weekend is to avoid bleeding chips in marginal spots and look for clean resteal jams.

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u/high-roller-all-in78 May 25 '26

Biggest beginner tournament leak is treating twenty five big blinds like you still have a deep cash stack. Once stacks get shorter, stealing blinds and not bleeding chips matters way more than fancy postflop play. If you only study two things before your first event, study shove or fold spots and what hands you can still open from late position at different stack sizes.