The decision and commitment to never say die is crucial to your Texas Hold Em Tournament Strategy.

No matter how crafty your Texas Hold Em Tournament Strategy is, if you are the type to give up easily without a fight you will never make it to a money table or win a tournament (unless you have a huge amount of luck). You need an attitude that you are never going to stop, never going to give up, never going to say die. By harnessing this cut-throat determination you will be able to play your hands and win your pots with a crude forcefulness and it is this that will pave the way for repeat, consistent success.

You never can quite pick and choose when you get to practice this skill but it will inevitably happen sometime. Becoming a good short-stack player is one more component of being a great poker player. There are some players who are great at this, presumably because they always have a short stack? Other players aren't so good at this but they also might have had a similar amount of practice. The thing that sets these two types of people apart is the attitude of the person when he's playing hard up against a rock.

Fighting and hanging on for a long time with just a few chips is valuable when playing a poker tournament because once you're out of a tournament, you're out for good. There is no buying back in - the game is over. Surviving as long as possible is useful because the longer you are in the longer the chance you have to pull some great cards to give you a leg up. Inevitability, probability, or whatever you want to call it, says that if you are dealt enough hands, sooner or later you'll hit a good pocket pair or something else you can actually work with. Having the focus to stay in and not make bad calls under pressure and lose your stack is what will enable this to happen.

Giving in or getting down isn't going to serve you at all. It doesn't matter how little you stack is or how bad the cards you have been dealt time and time again, harnessing within you the positivity and determination to not give up will be a crucial part of your success. I think it would be fair to say that every player in his day has been low on chips in a tournament, and its the players that never say die and continue fighting that have the biggest chance of actually coming back and winning.