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Tournament Tips
You want to enter
a limit tournament so you have to have in mind the gap
concept. This is the most obvious change you will have o
consider when revising your strategy for a tournament
like this. You will pay mare attentions to actually
winning every pot you get into and the pot odds will be
somewhat disregarded here. This doesn't mean you will do
obvious bad moves and get yourself into things you
cannot handle. The blind are large when you get yourself
further into the tourna...
Multi Table Poker
Tournament Tips
You want to enter a limit
tournament so you have to have in mind the gap concept.
This is the most obvious change you will have o consider
when revising your strategy for a tournament like this.
You will pay mare attentions to actually winning every
pot you get into and the pot odds will be somewhat
disregarded here. This doesn't mean you will do obvious
bad moves and get yourself into things you cannot
handle. The blind are large when you get yourself
further into the tournament, and this is the reason for
which you will try and get as little competitors as you
can stealing as many blinds as you can to help you rise
within the tournaments statistics.
The thing to
do is to go through with the hands you see capable of
winning the pot. Here hands change values. For example
the straight and the flush draws lose their value and
high pocket pairs are not so good. On the other hand
hands like AK or AQ have a much bigger value because
they beat all similar hands like AT, KQ etc. But as you
approach the finish you should not get involved with
heavy conflicts like when having an A J and you are up
against A K. With A J you might get the pot if the flop
shows A J, but the A K stands the same chance and it all
comes down to luck.
In tournaments you don't go
after getting the whole amount of chips your opponents
have, you don't necessarily want them to pay your hands
greatly, you just want to make them afraid. If they know
your hand is a dominating one, they will fold and you
can this way slowly increase your stack. And you should
do the same whenever you feel threatened by a better
hand. As the gap concept says, if you raise with a hand
like A 9, then a player that has a hand like A 10 will
fold, because he must consider the situation in which
you could have a better hand like A J.
If you
dealt high pocket pairs like KK or AA you should call
any raises that were done in front of your. Raising
again will help you eliminate players from the round and
that is your purpose. Being this aggressive with top
hands you show others that you are indeed determined to
take all their chips if they were to continue playing
against you.
But, you must never forget to judge
the hands of others. While playing your hand make time
to reflect what other can hold. Understand the gap
concept makes you a good player, but keep in mind that
there are bad players out there and they will call your
bets and raises just because they have a good hand,
regardless of what others might have.
Local Poker
Tournaments
When first starting
out a playing poker that even the best players are going
to make mistakes and through these a person can learn to
become a better player. However when it comes to playing
any kind of poker game whether it be a local poker
tournament or an online one you need to know where to
find them first.
I suppose the best place to
start looking for them is on the internet. There are
hundreds of sites that are now devoted to all forms of
poker and which can provid...
local poker
tournaments
When first starting out a playing
poker that even the best players are going to make
mistakes and through these a person can learn to become
a better player. However when it comes to playing any
kind of poker game whether it be a local poker
tournament or an online one you need to know where to
find them first.
I suppose the best place to
start looking for them is on the internet. There are
hundreds of sites that are now devoted to all forms of
poker and which can provide you with news and
information relating to the various tournaments that are
taking place. Just by typing into Google “Where to find
local poker tournaments” you will be amazed at the
number of results that appear on the screen in front of
you. There will be sites that list tournaments for a
particular area of the USA or there are sites which
offer a list of all tournaments that are taking place
right across the USA and around the world also.
Every site that provides this information you will find
that they provide you with dates, times and the places
where the tournaments will be taking place along with
contact details of those who are running them.
However if you are someone who is considering in taking
part in these face to face type of poker games it is
important that you have learnt and played the game as
much as possible before you start paying fees to gain
entry into them. Although we need to learn by our
mistakes it is best if you learn these mistakes through
taking part in say free poker games online where you are
not actually having to risk your own money whilst taking
part in them.
When it actually comes to finding a
local poker tournament can often be quite a challenge
but there are such sites as Find Poker Pal, Home Poker
Games and Chip Sharks which have a whole list of places
in the area where you live that are holding poker
tournaments.
What you can see from above is that
not longer is a person restricted to having to play
poker either online or going to places outside of the
area where they live in order to take part in a
tournament. Instead with a few clicks of the mouse they
can soon find a whole host of local poker tournaments
for them to take part in close to where they live.
Why I Hate Poker
Re-Buy Tournaments
Play in a
poker re-buy tournament and you had better make sure
that you have enough money on hand. I learned that
lesson the hard way. Some days when I was bored I would
head over to the local casino in the morning and buy in
to their small no limit poker tournaments. On one
particular day they were playing a re-buy tournament.
Not really understanding the re-buy structure I decided
to test it out. It was only 10 dollars to buy in and a
sign hung stating “Unlimited re-buys un...
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Play in a poker re-buy tournament and
you had better make sure that you have enough money on
hand. I learned that lesson the hard way. Some days when
I was bored I would head over to the local casino in the
morning and buy in to their small no limit poker
tournaments. On one particular day they were playing a
re-buy tournament. Not really understanding the re-buy
structure I decided to test it out. It was only 10
dollars to buy in and a sign hung stating “Unlimited
re-buys until first level.”
Having brought only a
hundred dollars with me, I figured the most I would be
out was 10 bucks. Waiting for the tourney to start, I
asked around and gathered that you could buy another
stack of chips equivalent to your starting chips until
the first increase in blinds, if you lost all of them.
Wow, cool I thought, if I lose all my chips I can get
more. Only 10 bucks extra I thought, not having the
intention of losing before the blinds went up. Once we
started playing, it was not so cool.
I slowly
realized that people at my table were playing like a
bunch of maniacs. Going all in, losing and re-buying and
re-buying and re-buying, they were just trying to build
their chip stacks. Having been dealt actually good
hands, I was getting sucked out on, getting rivered left
and right and soon was in on the re-buying frenzy.
Angry that these clowns were sucking out on me, I
was determined to get their chips and soon found myself
out of $100 in less than a half an hour. Far more than
the $10 I was originally okay to part with. To my
complete dismay, after having lost all my money I
watched as everyone at the table had tightened up and
began to play “real” poker after the re-buy period
ended. These were not just maniacal poker players, they
were regulars at the casino who made their living off
newbies like me.
I headed over to the ATM,
steaming and on tilt and took out another $100, that
actually turned out to be $103 after being assessed ATM
fees. Getting into a limit game, I quickly lost another
$100, adding even more insult to injury when I realized
that this table made their money off newbies who were on
tilt after losing in the tournament. So much for my fun
$10 day. Hey, there’s always blackjack.