When playing in online poker tournaments, you're eventually going to have to start mixing up your play so as to trap your opponents and capture their stack. Most players fulfill this by getting involved in a few small pots with weaker hands or draws that they can show at the river.
Forethought should always be taken however, because your adversaries in the early stages of online poker tournaments are willing to risk far more than you would expect.Once you make it past the early cycles though, you will find more tight-aggressive players that can fall into your trap if you mix up your game and hand selection prudently.
Your goal here is create disarray in your opponents and that may take some experience to do correctly and inexpensively. Now this may be a bigger challenge since you cannot see your opponents.
Pot control is the key here as you want to mix it up, but not make it costly to do so. This is paramount and goes to your emotional training and experience in playing poker, because you will often run into aggressive, prudent opponents and your inner urges may lead you to clashes where you're far behind.
This is often the biggest hump to get over when improving your poker game, but you must do it so as to avoid being too easily readable by sharp opponents. For long term winning in poker tournaments, a lack of control will cost you money.
This is a strategy I often use when starting a poker tournament. Take a connector hand or two, and be intent on raising with them whenever you get them dealt to you during the tournament. You can't always do it, but if you are first in the pot then make believe it is better than it really is and play it that way.
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I would rather call against multiple limpers then re-raised my middle pair to isolate in the early going.Set mining can be a profitable play for you when you can keep your entry costs low. In the early stages, loads of players are correctly playing for implied odds. If you raise it that much, it's still not a big hit to thier situation, and you will likely NOT get others to fold. What usually happens here is a tough decision to continuation bet or not into a large pot so many over cards on the board resulting in tough decisions. Why not open raise, but once there are limpers, avoid attacking them when its deep stacked and when the blinds are very small.
You also can't forget about the 2:1 odds. If the pot is 1.Five big blinds, with one caller, which makes it two now.5BBs. You now decide to raise to three big blinds, making the pot five.5BBs and the limper (assuming everyone else folds) has to call 2BBs to see a flop with 5.5BBs in it. So your opponent is getting nearly three to one odds by calling.
You are pretty much never more than a 3:1 under dog pre flop, which is what Gus is on about. But there is a problem. Maybe even more than one problem.
Firstly your problem is bet-ability of a marginal hand. You might have 95s and might be up against AK. The flop comes down 5 J Q. You are in front by quite a long way, but can you put much money into this pot? What about the continuation bet? But what if you just bet into the pot? Then what are you going to do when he smooth calls? Do you fire again on the turn? How deep a hole are you going to dig for yourself with your bottom pair hoping that it is good?
What about if you have 33 pre flop? There are 3 over cards (which statistcially are likely to have missed your opponent), but how much can you bet at this situation?
So yes, you had correct odds pre flop, if you could get to showdown for something approximating that pre flop investment. However, in big stack scenarios you really shouldn't. You still have 3 betting rounds before you get to fifth street.
However there is another problem as a result. You are out of position and that's not good poker tournament strategy. What this also means is that when you do actually hit the flop, the pots will be smaller. It also means when you don't make a big hand, you will lose more than your fair share because the player in position will bet you off marginal hands with a worse hand himself.
So really, for these deep stack situations, pot odds are completely irrelevant IMHO. This is where you should be measuring up your opponents stack.. i.e. what is the size of my chip stack and my opponents chip stack. My calling range is rather wide if this bet represents 5% of my stack or less. Even if they have pocket aces, my small cards and when a huge pot. I want them to have AA when I am playing 53s for a raise. But if the raise is getting up to around 10% of my stack, then I fold all the weired stuff, except PPs. Still, I am only concerend about the size of the bet compared to my effective tournament stack.
My cards may be 56s and be up against big slick. But unless I make and OESD, Flush draw or 2 pair or better, I will be surrendering pretty much every pot on the flop especially if I am OOP. Once in a while you might just want to check here if you hit a low pair, especially if you can put your opponent on a hand.
In Gus Hansen's poker tournament strategy book, he often sounds angry at himself for calling early position raises from his big blind blind. Understandably, these regrets come about as soon as you see the flop which invariably are difficult to play. Gus can look at his opponent for tells, and after all his is The Great Dane. There are no person to person tells and we can't play like Gus. Take into account, your opponent is weaker than the players Gus plays against. It's also important to know if your opponent can get away from a top pair, or are more willing to let it ride.
To sum it up, pre-flop pot odds are less important than post flop implied odds. You might choose to play a given hand anyway, but do it for the reason of implied odds and not pot odds, if that makes sense. You have to know how to calculate poker odds when getting into hands like this becuase it may very well determine your long term success in tournaments. Just knowing Poker rules are not enough to win, you need strategy too.
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This is one of the most asked questions in the Poker arena and when that is not answered but rather ignored. A vast amount of people cannot answer this question because of the fact that there is not a definitive answer. But let's have a quick look at unravelling some of the answers and seeing what the game is all about, is it just skill or luck?
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When any one starts out gambling, they instantly want to get into playing poker. People like to play poker because they have heard that it is an extravagant yet easy sort of game to play that can fill your life with a variety of riches. But that's where things begin to go wrong. Poker is not just about chance you have to know the simple principles of the game otherwise you are going to lose a lot of cash. Below are a few tips that you should always remember if you are starting out.
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I would like to highlight the pros and cons with multi-table playing for online poker players.
New poker players are perhaps wondering, what multi-table playing is about?
Quite simple it means you are playing more than one table at the same time.
I can almost hear all the “one table players” asking why should I play more than one table?
Well, the most obvious reason is to make more money.
The downside of playing 1 poker table is that you are missing out the major profit opportunities.
It’s a known fact that most players with some experience will make more money by playing more tables.
Multi-table playing means lots of action, but also less time to make decision.
The multi-table game might not be for everyone.
What could be the downside of multi-tabling?
More tables means less focus on each table.
You might miss out on small details from the tables.
Playing to many tables could lead you to play less well on each table.
Some players feel that multi-tabling becomes a mechanical game and therefore don’t like it, it’s actually a matter of taste.
When you feel that the multi-table game affect your results it is time to take a break or simply stop. Therefore is important to closely monitor your results.
What it all comes down to is that multi-tabling is not for everyone.
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A lot of people do not go no where near gambling, simply because they try to steer clear from becoming addicted, but personally I think its a great money earner.
I actually started playing when I was around 21 years old, I was still quite young and a beginner so lost a bit of money to begin with. But I decided to do something about it so I read manuals both online and offline, I was getting great at the game.
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A lot of effort is essential in finding the best online casino and it is comparable with searching for that gem in the rough. By searching for it the wrong way, one might wind up empty-handed and also registered to an online casino which is entirely incompetent. You can easily and with not so much effort search for the best online casino. If you don’t want to sweat too much searching for the best online casino, then you must follow the steps below thoroughly.
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A vast amount of people in the world love to gamble. But if you did win a big sum would it make your life a whole lot nicer? Or would it in fact make it a misery, let us take a brief look at the reasons behind both statements.
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I’m here to show you on how to profit when playing baccarat. Baccarat is played with 6 or 8 decks of cards, and in this article I want to show you the probability on a hand dealt from a full shoe of 6 or 8 decks:
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