Are you a short-handed poker warrior yet? If you’ve been reading this series of articles and paying even the slightest bit of attention, I’ll wager that you are.

But there’s one area of short-handed combat I’ve yet to address: tournament play. In today’s action-orientated poker world you can find a lot of six-max (six-handed table) tournaments, which can be both fun and profitable for a newly christened short-handed specialist like yourself. There’s a lot of call for aggressive play, but understanding the size of your stack is more important than knowing that a flush beats a straight.

You’ve almost certainly played nine- or 10-handed tournaments and sit-and-gos, and have some idea of what kind of hands you’re ‘supposed’ to be playing from which position.