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MULTI TABLE TOURNAMENT - BLINDS
You know what gets me? - The Blinds.
Great quote and as we have said earlier it is vital that you never fold away the tournament you are in and that you have to be very aggressive when you are near the bubble and the blinds escalate and everybody tries to survive into the money.
This leads us to another interesting fact or better say a widely spread misconception. This common misconception when playing poker tournaments is about the actual hands.
Now hold on to your hats and listen when we say that you are never as much as dominated as you might think. If you really need to double up a low pocket pair may easily win against a big Ace or suited connectors may crack pocket kings. So it`s better to re-raise all-in a Jack-Ten suited against a tight player`s raise than to try it with Ace-nine. So if you think your cards are live and you don’t share the same high card or kicker go for it. Don’t forget that the other guy might fold as well and if you really run into a trap – well, it can be also you who gets lucky. Recently I pushed pocket treys (3s-3c) and ran into pocket kings Kh-Ks (aka Cowboys) - so I thought now it`s over. But when the board showed 4 spades on the river, I had hit my long shot flush and survived. I simply got lucky. Sometimes you are bound to lose, but sometimes you are bound to win too.
Especially when you have live cards, for instance say somebody flips over Ace-King and you hold 7-8 suited – many of the railbirds will be happy to say that this race is a lock for Ace-King, being so smart, knowing so much about poker and so on and so on (by the way, why are they watching if they are that good?) – But we tell you this race isn`t a lock at all. You will win this race over 1/3 of the time. Period. Any poker odds software can tell you this. So it is not even a suck out.
The other day during a heads-up battle somebody moved in with AK suited and got called by K7 off suit, so this would be a situation where everybody would say it`s a lock, but it wasn’t because K7 really drew out on AK to make a straight to the seven on the river. (So THIS is a suck out, by the way)
So if the pot is laying a great reward or if under high pressure, it`s always better to call with a quality speculative hand rather than with Ace-Ten or KQ for example. So remember, don’t be afraid to push when your cards are live.
Another important thing the look for is the tournament overlay.
In other words, look for those tournaments with a guarantee on them, like a $100.000 guaranteed tournament with a $100 buy-in.
So if there are only 500 people or so showing up for this tournament, which adds up to about 50K the poker site has to supply the missing prize money to fulfill the guarantee.
In that matter, your $100 buy in is actually worth $200, so obviously you simply have to play in these.
These guaranteed multi table tournaments create amazing situations where you definitely have the best of it, so spend some time searching the lobby to find them and create a gameplan to play as much as possible in these poker tourneys.
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Of course tournament overlay also refers to the players. Luckily tournament poker is a highly televised event nowadays. People have seen many ferocious battles when there is a final table broadcast on TV. So naturally many people try to get there as well, mainly by playing low stakes online tournaments, satellite tourneys and qualifiers, trying to play and act like the pros on TV. Well, a poker tournament is won in the trenches. So usually an online poker tournament with a rather low buy in is crowded with a bunch of weak players, bluffing and gambling their tournament away. Sit back and watch as one third of the field gets eliminated within the first hour or so.
To summarize, a guaranteed online poker tournament combined with a bunch of weak, fishy players plus the poker strategies you are going to learn from us plus a little patience and discipline from your side will put you on the winning side for sure.
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