Exclusive: Mastering the Early Game with bencb
In an exclusive video, tournament wizard bencb analyses everything you need to know about the Early Game in a PokerStars Sunday Warm-Up.
We probably have all heard of bencb by now, either through his very own coaching project Raise Your Edge or his super busy YouTube channel providing us with a constant flow of high-class poker content for months.
In an exclusive video produced for PokerStrategy.com, the Grand Master himself now bestows upon us another 60 minutes oozing with world-class poker knowledge.
The focus of the video is solely on the early stage of tournaments in which, when it comes to success or failure at the tournament tables, much more is at stake than most players think. After all, only a good early game will get you in a promising spot for the decisive mid and end stages of an event.
Review with one of the best
Format-wise the video comes as a session review of a Sunday Warm-Up bencb played roughly two months ago at PokerStars, booking a tidy win of $50,000.
Obviously, bencb won't just mindlessly click through all the hands played. Whenever an interesting and decisive spot is due, things will be analysed in detail, giving us the rare chance to get insight into the thought process of a high stakes tournament player.
For instance, right at the start we're diving into a spot with 
at the cut-off, confronted with a small raise from MP2. bencb will take you through the options available, namely call or 3-bet, illustrating the process of determining reasonable ranges and frequencies for either option.
In this context, you can't just focus on your own position or your hand. You will have to take into account the players behind you and their tendencies. In the spot at hand, for instance, a 3-bet prone player behind should lead to us 3-betting the initial raise instead of just calling it. In contrast, if there are weak players in the blinds, we rather want to get them into the hand and not scare them away with a 3-bet.
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Playing like a High Roller
If you would like to raise your own game to the bencb level, your best bet is to join his Tournament Masterclass. It's arguably the best coaching course you can get your hands on and highly popular amongst PokerStrategists.
The free introductory video to the course provides you with all the information you need in order to decide whether the Tournament Masterclass is a fitting offer for your level of play.
You will learn how to make good decisions for a wide range of different situations, which is the one skill that really forms a strong and fearsome poker player. More importantly, you will learn how to make better decisions than your opponents or other winning players.
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Deliver knockouts like a Bounty Beast
In collaboration with bencb, w3cray has put together a unique strategy package for knockout and bounty tournaments. The focus of the course is exclusively on these types of tournaments which are amongst the most popular these days.
Still, most players don't tend to realise that bounty tournaments are quite a bit more complex than their standard brethren, often times only guessing the right approach to the very specific structure instead of really knowing what to do.
With the help of review videos, live plays as well as hand analyses, bencb and w3cray are going to help you to get to the gist of the special tournament format. The road to success is as simple as always: Understanding the theoretical concepts and learning to apply them right at the tables.
