“Be Patient. No One Wins A Tournament During The Day 1”
“Players should always to be patient. They should not get worried if after five hours of play they still have the starting stack. After all, no one wins a tournament during the Day 1.”
During the afternoon, we sat down with Unibet Poker pro Quentin Lecomte and asked him for some advices to make it through an event like the PokerNews Cup.
“In tournaments like this one I see quite a lot of player playing very good poker for five hours and then lose everything in less than thirty minutes,” Leconte explained. “It’s something I find quite normal, as it used to happen to me as well when I started to play poker.”
“When you find yourself with the same stack you had in the beginning after playing for a lot of hours, you feel like you have to do something. That's a mistake,” Lecomte continued.
“It’s exactly the same reason why you shouldn’t give away chips only because you have five times the starting stack. You always need to be patient and do your best to make it through the tournament one small step after the other. This is the only way to win a poker tournament.”
Considering this advice comes from a guy who has more than $370,000 in live tournament winnings and who plays poker for a living - I think you may want to follow it.