Hey all,

Little bit about my poker history and how I ended up joining here…

I have been listening to TPE podcasts after a poker buddy of mine and I decided that we needed a lot of work in the tournament poker area. Only in the last 6 months have I started to take poker seriously and start learning more about the game I really love to play.

I have been playing mostly cash over the last 6 months at my local casino on the sunny Gold Coast in Australia. I have been making a considerable, secondary income from cash and feel confident enough in that side of my game at the moment. But I am out of my depth with tournaments of any size, I wish to increase my knowledge in this area.

Since listening to not all, but particularly the early stage TPE podcasts. I have already seen a huge improvement in my early stage tournament play. I am getting much, much deeper in 80 or 90% of tournaments.

I came to realise that I was playing a cash style game in a tournament very quickly, i.e. opening in the first blind level to 3x with suited connectors, simple things like that… Before I knew it I was through 100BB with crap.

Since tightening up my game extensively in the early stages of tournaments, I have been able to achieve much, much stronger results early and build large stacks to the point where I have 100BB. I am often wellllll above average and inside the top 10 or 20 at this stage. I fold my way to the money but I really feel I am missing a trick to playing “BIG STACK POKER” as I believe the pro’s call it.

My questions are:

– What is the next step when I run deep in these tournaments?
– What are some moves I should be trying?
– What should my range be in certain positions?
– Where can I learn more about this stage of a tournament on TPE?

Looking forward to the membership here, I have watched a few videos already, they are epic!

Cheers Luke