Meanwhile if your focus has been more about survival - that is, if you've been playing a mostly tight game and most avoiding risks thus far - you're probably right around the average or perhaps a little above or below it.
If you've been focusing on accumulating chips by being aggressive and occasionally taking risks in the hopes of building up a stack, you're likely either sitting above the average - perhaps even well above the average and among the leaders - or you might be especially short-stacked if those chances you've taken haven't worked out in your favor. How you approach the middle stage of a multi-table tournament has a lot to do with how well you've managed to do during the early levels, which is usually affected by how you've been approaching the tournament thus far when balancing the need for chip accumulation and survival. Moving on from the early levels into the middle stage of multi-table tournaments, let's focus on some factors you need to keep in mind in order to increase your chances of making it even further and into the money.īy 'middle stage' we're referring to the period following the early levels - that is, after the antes have kicked in and after late registration has ended, but before you're in close enough proximity to the bubble for the prospect of making the money to exert any significant pressure just yet.
