Poker Tournament
This article belongs to the Poker Strategy series.
Lately I have given a lot of thought to the notion of formulating an optimal strategy for playing low stakes MTT online tournaments. I'm pretty sure I don't have it nailed down yet, but I want to share what I have come up with so far. Maybe you have some ideas of your own to add to mine? Before I start I would like to share one of the most important things I have come to realize lately when it comes to optimizing your chances of winning an online
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I have on average played around 5 small stakes (buyin of 20$ or less) online poker MTTs a week this year. That works out to 120 tournaments in total so far. Out of these 120 tournaments I have made the final table in two of them with a second place finish in a 10000$ guaranteed as my best result. Usually I have busted out during the middle or late stages meaning that on average each tournament represents 3 hours of playing time. I just realize now that this means I have spent 300-400 hours this
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Submitted by John, this article belongs to the Poker Tournament series
You can find a lot of different poker games online lately. Not only there's the difference between tournament poker and cash games, you can also choose between long handed and short handed games, single or multi-table tournaments,... . But there's another important factor which determines your game: the amount of chips you sit down with (in regard to the size of the blinds).
It's a known fact among the more experienced poker
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This article belongs to the Poker Tournament series.
Lately I have come to realize that playing Multi-table Poker Tournaments requires a special mental mindset that not all poker players possess. On one hand you never stand to lose more than the tournament buyin, but the price you pay for this privilege is that most of the tournaments you enter will be a complete waste of time - when evaluated by a profit per hour criteria - unless you make it to the final table.
The path to the final table
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This article is a part of the Poker Mathematics series.
Recently I have wondered if it is possible to calculate the probability of winning a poker tournament based on which strategy you use and how your all in moves are distributed. In this article I will share with you my findings. Hope you have the patience to read it all the way through:-). The table below (the culmination of way too many hours of research) is a teaser of what is ahead if you continue reading.
Duration [hours]
Reference
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Submitted by Vic Porcelli, this article belongs to the Poker Strategy series.
Poker is a game of information. To borrow a phrase from 1983 World Series of Poker Main Event champ, Tom McEvoy, “…Poker is not a card game with people, it is a people game with cards.” So how do we gather information about our opponents? The first thing to learn is to not over think it.
Let’s look at information that is a little less intricate than observing how your opponent breathes after he makes
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Submitted by Dungbeetle, this article belongs to the Poker Tournament series.
I find consolation in the fact that other and better tournament players also experience unbelievable misfortune. On a positive note it looks like Dungbeetle's 2009 results are coming around.
Sigh...
Just remembered why online tournaments are one of the most frustrating inventions in history. I was flying in the Pokerstars $50 rebuy, being chip leader from about 100 runners out till about 30 left. With 15 left I
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Submitted by Cody Kirshner this article belongs to the Poker Tournament series
Have you been playing tournaments that you wish you could do better in, or you are doing well and then all of a sudden have a “blow up”? We all feel that way from time to time, and even the best of us will make a misread and loose all of our chips, but that is the nature of tournament poker. Every decision that you make in tournament poker could be the hand that can cost you the tournament. So I decided to
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Submitted by Dungbeetle, this article belongs to the Poker Tournament series.
An amusing tournament write up from a tournament played at the Dusk Till Dawn poker club's monthly poker festival in Nottingham, UK. I especially liked the last part of Dungbeetles recollection where he sets up a trap for the table bully, only to find....I won't spoil it for you keep reading and you will know why this post made me laugh inside when I read it.
Myself, The Baron, Dev, Fluke, Jalfont and Volcano
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This article belongs to the Poker Project series.
To celebrate our new collaboration on the Poker Bankroll Blog and PokerBRB sites, McTap03 and I have started our own bankroll building SNG and MTT (multi table tournament) project on Full Tilt Poker. Our starting bankroll is 150$ and we will be posting regular updates on our many wins and hopefully fewer losses. It goes without saying that we expect our bankroll to increase significantly in no time.
Here are our rules for bankroll
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