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10
Tips for Online poker
- by Brad Daugherty, the 1991 WSOP Champion . |
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- Want
to improve your end game? Want to build your level
of experience in playing final tables? Want to learn
how to 'close the deal' and win an event? Play a single
table satellite! And when you do, pretend you are at
the final table of the World Championship. Remember,
every chip is precious. Playing single-table
tournaments is great practice for the end game
of multi-table tournaments. The strategies are very
similar; with the biggest difference being single-table
tournaments usually take less than an hour to play,
where the multi-table tournaments take over 4 hours
to play.
- A good
basic strategy for the single-table tournaments is
to play solid, playing only premium hands in the first
three rounds. After that, open up and play more hands,
becoming more aggressive the higher the blinds
get, and the shorter handed the tournament becomes.
- Be a bettor,
not a caller. Remember, the bettor has two chances
to win, the first being you might be
able to show down the best hand, and secondly, if
everyone folds, you win an uncontested pot!
- When your
chip stack gets less than five times the size of the
big blind in a no-limit single-table tournament or
a multi-table tournament, consider moving all in with
any two cards as long as you are the first one in
the pot. In these situations you are just betting
that no one has a hand that they can call you with.
If you do get called and have the worst hand, you
might get lucky and draw out on them. If you aren't
the first one in, you are joining a pot with automatic
competition.
- In the
late stages when you have a large stack of chips and
it's one or two spots from the money, it's easy to
rob players that are desperately trying to make the
money. Play more aggressive in that spot, reduce
your starting requirements, and pick up some
extra chips!
- When you
have an opponent who is overly aggressive, use it
against them. Let them think you have a weak hand
when you really have a strong one. Check into them
so they will bet. You will then have the option to
checkraise and take advantage of their aggressiveness. In
the case of a real monster, check it a second time,
and then pop it up!
- Play Real
Money games to practice for the early rounds of multi-table
tournaments. The play here is very close to the same
because you aren't under pressure from the blinds.
So play real money games anytime you have the time
to improve your play for the early rounds. Play solid
poker.
- Have a
game plan for your tournament. Decide if you are going
to start out playing tight in the early rounds, or
if are you going to play fast and try to accumulate
chips early. Consider adjustments you might make
if you get short of chips, if you get a large stack,
or how you might adjust to different types of opponents
styles. Be prepared for everything!
- When you
are playing, always observe your opponents and pick
out who will and who wont, defend the blinds.
The higher the blinds get, the more valuable this
information becomes. Remember the tight players are
easier to rob. Be ready to take advantage of them.
- Save the
best for last. Play your own tournament! That's right,
your own little event that starts and ends when you
want. You are the tournament director and can play
any form of poker you'd like. Sit in the
smallest game you can find. The rounds are 20, 30,
40 minutes, anything you want, so set an alarm clock.
When the clock goes off, you must get up and move
to the next highest game. Keep going and see how much
you can accumulate and how far you can go. Get to
the biggest game and you win the trophy. Of course,
in this tournament, you can quit at any time and cash
in your checkers. Good Luck!
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