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How does one approach tournament after gritting one’s teeth in cash games?
Of course, this is a topic that could cover an entire book, but we don’t have space for that. Instead, let’s talk about some quick tips the money miller can use before the next poker tournament.
Attack the big blind
It’s always amazing how patient you are in most cash games. It doesn’t matter how hard you play all day. Apparently no one wants to fold most of the cash gaming tables! This is especially true at lower stakes.
You can make a good living just sitting on your butt and playing premiums. These are the luxuries afforded to the player when the blinds never go up.
Occasionally, a loose collector will open and a loose player will contact him. This is your chance to squeeze big, even using your hands like proper hands. If both players fold, you can show a proper 7-4 and say, “This is my favorite hand.” This will keep you running for weeks.
But in tournaments we don’t have much time. We need to attack. how to do that?
You may have heard the old trope of trying to steal the curtains. But this advice is not as applicable as it used to be, because no one wants to fold their big blind!
Does this mean that we should do without them? No. We want them to call out from the big blind.
If you use any online poker database management tool, you will see that no one ever makes money when they call from the big blind. Instead, they are just trying to save parts of their big blind. They still lose a quarter of the big blind each time, half of the big blind each time, or more. That money has to go to someone, and that person has to be you.
Who will bet on you three times?
So, now we know that we make half of the big blind every time the big blind flattens us. This isn’t an exact number, but let’s use that estimate for today’s purposes
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The question then becomes how do we prepare this situation as much as possible?
We can raise in the late position. This is a clear strategy for constantly setting up this confrontational situation.
However, sometimes it is not folded to us in the late position as often as we would like. This means that we will need to try to move up from the previous position in order to get to the big blind.
This is when we have to study the players on our left. How often do they bet on three? If they just call us, they give us a free spin, so we still have a great chance of making money.
If the opponents to our left have small combos, they are more likely to bet us three times with the all-in. If they are more conservative players they are less likely to reassert themselves and regain their position. We must open more.
Let’s say you have a hand like a suitable K-3. This is not a hand that you should play often in cash games. They offer a lot of second best flushes which can get expensive when pots reach over 200 big blind.
However, in poker tournaments, if no one wants to bet on you three times and the big blind keeps calling you, you can open and play that hand. You still don’t like playing this hand, but due to the escalating blinds and advantageous table, you’ll get out of line.
Small continuous bets
It’s also important to realize that when someone outside the big curtain is calling us, they’re calling us with whatever hand it seems. They can have more than 50% of their hand already in the deck!
This means that they will completely miss out on most swings. This is what happens when you play many hands with little potential after the flop. Rough high cards and casual medium cards cannot easily make straight and straight draws.
Your opponent will miss most of the time and miss his position. This puts you in an advantageous place. You can bet small amounts and make most of these players fold. They simply wanted to know if they would face the flop. They are not more interested then.
If you bet 25% of the pot, your bet as a complete bluff only needs 20% of the time. This means that your opponent needs to defend your bet 80% of the time. That will be very difficult when they waste half the time and are off site.
Three bet more
This game plan will see you attack and advance further in tournaments with controlled aggression. There is only one thing that can stop you, and that is if someone else at the table is trying to use the same strategy.
If someone else at the table is constantly leveling up the preset and trying to attack the blinds, you’ll have to re-raise them. You can’t let them take every stealing situation.
Remember, in these situations you don’t necessarily need a premium hand. You just need a better hand than the rubbish raised by repeated openings.
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conclusion
When we play poker tournaments for the first time, it feels more fast as compared to cash games. The blinds go up frequently, and players seem to think that Monopoly’s money chips can be tossed carelessly.
To start unlocking our game, we simply need to collect more to get the big blinds. The more big pots we get people to play outside positions with us, the better it will be.
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Opening up more when people aren’t activating us is a good first step to opening up our game in tournaments. Getting players who open up a lot is an excellent second step. If we can use both strategies simultaneously, we will delve deeper into more tournaments. ♠
Alexander Fitzgerald is a professional poker player and Best selling author who currently lives in Denver, Colorado. it’s a WPT And EPT The final scheduling list, and it has WCOOP And scoop Online wins. His most recent win was the $250,000 Guaranteed in American Cardroom. He’s currently enjoying blasting bums at Ignition leagues while listening to death metal. Free training packages It is provided to new newsletter subscribers who have registered at PokerHeadRush.com
