With this in mind, your goal should be to push for higher ranks and push hard. Taking small gains over time by targeting lower-ranked individuals may be fairly safe; though at the same time, this will not give you the ladder climbing power necessary to truly get to the top. Relying purely on your cards at this stage may not be the strongest move either given the level of the blinds that you will face, therefore you will need to adjust your play style in a number of different ways depending on your particular stack size at the time to truly make the final cut.

Very Short Stack

Going into the final round with a very short stack compared to your opponents leaves you very few options: fold, or go all-in. This is especially true given the level of blinds at this point as simply playing passively and waiting for just the right hand will bleed you dry. Any time you are dealt even a decent hand (high face or good pair) and no other player has gone all-in before you then push as hard and as fast as you can in order to leverage yourself into a higher position before the final rounds get far beyond what you can handle.

Short Stack

With a short (but not TOO short) stack at your command. you are afforded a bit more flexibility in terms of when and how you will choose your plays, though at the same time bear in mind that any major move upwards in the ladder will require you to go all-in and try to gain a significant enough boost to make your standings stronger. Avoid limping into pots unless you’re particularly confident in your hand and stick with raising earlier on each round than later – especially if you have developed a reputation at this point of playing tight and can use intimidation to your advantage. At the same time, however, taking too large of a risk could easily work against you as you are already at a disadvantage in terms of your available chips, so choose your actions wisely.

Medium Stack

Coming into the final stages with a medium stack puts you in the strong position of being able to have flexibility with your choices. Being able to either play tight to slowly progress or go wild for a big move, your chips place you in an ideal position for many. At the same time, however, you can also expect to be the target of larger stacked individuals as you will generally be more easy to predict than shorter stacked players who will be making wild calls and may get lucky. Keep yourself flexible and don’t stick to one particular play style in order to avoid getting yourself trapped in a position that will hurt you more than help you in both the short and long run.

Large Stack

Coming into the final rounds with a large stack allows you one of the greatest tools in poker: leverage. Use the fact that shorter stacks will be making wild calls to your advantage and get them to wager more money than they may be normally comfortable with or even go all-in, especially if they limp into a flop and show weakness. Set the pace for each round to dominate the hands and constantly work on your overall stack towards the first place win.

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Once reaching this level, many players with larger stacks will continue to play highly aggressive and make dangerous calls that they might not make otherwise in standard games, whereas mid to small stack holders will typically play tighter in order to defend their positions and try to leverage higher gains. In addition, those who have been in the tournament a considerable amount of time will generally play tighter as well as they do not wish to make their investment of hours of their time be for nothing; therefore, this can create tighter players even with considerable chip stacks at times if they are being overly cautious.

Bearing this in mind, your own plays need to be adjusted accordingly in order to compensate for whatever alterations in plays over earlier rounds may come your way. To this end, you need to begin classifying payers as one of two types: those looking for any prize they can claim and those looking to take home the big win at the end.

Those who are looking for any prize they can take home (generally small cash awards) tend to play tighter, only raising or re-raising when they have a particularly strong hand. This is done to prevent them from ever leaving the paying “bubble” while at the same time helping them to edge their way up the rankings. Those who want to go for the big win, however, will play unpredictably – sometimes looser and sometimes tighter depending on the particular situation at the time. If you are having difficulties remembering which player is which type throughout the game, don’t worry about taking any small notes on the subject as this is one of the many tools at your disposal during online games.

For your own plays at this point, you may want to consider becoming somewhat more aggressive yourself. This means playing strong hands (post-flop if possible) while avoiding needless risks such as bluffing or blind steals, with trying to leverage as many check-raise opportunities as possible to give yourself maximum gains with limited overall risks. Given that this is still a freeroll and somewhat earlier on in the tournament, unnecessary risks can easily be called and luck may play against you just as much as it plays for you from time to time, so unless you’re willing to risk knocking yourself out wait for the right plays and follow-through accordingly.

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How do you get in Sunday Millions Event powered by PokerStars?

The first thing that you will need to do is to create an account and make a deposit; however, you have to download PokerStars first and you’ll need to do it through PokerNews to prove eligibility for the freeroll event.  The next thing on your list of to-do’s is to earn 250 VVP’s during the entire month of July and voila! You are qualified.

When does the Sunday Million Freeroll Event take place?

The freeroll tournament takes place at 14:35 EDT on August 8.

How do I register?

Anyone that wants to participate in the freeroll tournament August 8 will need to manually register after July 29.

Don’t worry that it is close to the end of the month.  Download PokerStars via PokerNews and get started earning your VVP’s to become eligible.  Hurry and good luck!

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