As I am sure you are aware, Full Tilt offers a number of different tournaments. However, some of my favorites to play are still the Knock-out tournaments. They exist at many different dollar levels and offer something for nearly every budget. They also add a fun element of collecting a “bounty” every time you knock another player out of the tournament.
The one I like to play the most when I don’t feel like spending alot of money and getting too serious, is the $24+$2 tournament. For each player you knock out, you get $4 added immediately to your account. This tournament runs constantly with 90 players, but you often also find it with over 1000 entries playing. This gives you ample opportunity to knock players out and collect their bounty. These can get to be profitable very quickly, long before you have even made the money and reached the final table.
Some small adjustments in strategy are necessary to have sucess in these games, mainly DO NOT MAKE STUPID, LOOSE, PLAYS JUST TO KNOCK SOMEBODY OUT!!!
Time after time, I see players ruin their tournament by playing way too loose simply because they could not resist calling a big raise or an all-in for the chance to suck-out and put someone out and collect their bounty. More than most, these tournaments have people chasing because of the bounties. The best strategy for you to use is to simply sit back, wait for premium cards and punish them! It is really that easy most of the time.
The other thing that I would strongly recommend is changing that strategy later in the tournament and becoming somewhat loose by trying to put out the very small stacks. If you have say, $8500 in chips in the Big Blind and the Button player goes all-in with his stack of $600, by all means call with any two cards. The potential equity gained by collecting the bounty AND putting a player out of the tournament is well worth it. Sure, the short stacks don’t like it much when your J-7 off suit catches a Jack and puts out their A-K, but that’s what they get for being short stacked in the first place. Remember, don’t chase hands and you won’t find yourself short stacked most of the time.
If you have not tried a Knock-out tournament on Full Tilt, give it a try. They are very entertaining and also quite profitable!
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