Multi-table tournament mastery: stage-by-stage strategy, short-stack push/fold, ICM, bubble play, final tables, PKOs, and satellites.
What makes tournaments a different game from cash: rising blinds, finite chips, nonlinear chip value, payout structures, and the variance realities of large fields.
From 150bb down to 20bb: deep-stack accumulation, the 30-50bb workhorse band, reshove fundamentals, and how hand values shift as stacks compress.
Mastering the site's Nash-approximation pushfold charts: sb_shove ranges from 5bb to 20bb, bb_call defenses, extending blind-vs-blind logic to other positions, and the classic short-stack errors.
The independent chip model from first principles: converting stacks to dollar equity, risk premium, the shove/call asymmetry, when ICM dominates, and how to study with ICM tools.
The money bubble as ICM's maximum-pressure laboratory: bubble factors by stack class, bullying, surviving, gambling, stalling ethics, and post-money micro-bubbles.
From the FT bubble to heads-up for the title: preparation, extreme-ICM 9-handed play, short-handed range expansion, deal-making, and role-specific playbooks for chip leader and short stack.
Progressive knockout strategy: converting bounties to chips, covering dynamics, stage-by-stage PKO adjustments, mystery bounties, and the canonical bounty leaks.
Flat-payout satellite strategy, multi-flight and re-entry logistics, late registration, day-2 dynamics, turbo formats, and building a tournament schedule and bankroll plan.