I always felt that ring games made more sense than poker tournaments. In a ring game, if you win all the money, you get to keep it. In most Poker tournaments you're lucky if you get to keep 30%. In June of this year I started to play in poker tournaments regularly. Now I play Poker Tournaments almost exclusively. 3 to 5 tournaments per day. Any one that makes the final table 4 or 5 times a month can make a significant amount of money.
In Poker Tournaments when you lose your stack, you are out. Unlike a ring game where, if you bust out, you get more money out of your pocket. Even in Re-buy and Add-on (R&A) Poker Tournaments once the re-buy period has ended , when you lose your stack, you are out. In "Tournament Poker for Advanced Players," Sklansky suggests it this way:
"You're broke. You're done."
"They're broke. They're done."
I recently read in a book, on poker, ("Poker for Dummies.") It suggests that you must set proper goals to be successful at poker. Contrary to common believe, the goal in poker is not to win the pot, the goal is to win the money. There is a difference. Often the player, who wins the most pots, loses the most money. Well in a tournament, you goal is to win the last hand. To do this you definitely don't have to win a particular pot, and chips are really just secondary. Your goal is to survive. Even if you get there with a short stack, you still have a chance.
These pages should give you some basic Poker strategies for NO LIMIT HOLD'EM that will help you get to the final table and when you get there, make the best of the opportunity. We discuss techniques to address the following Poker Tournament topics:
Tournament level
Stack size (yours and theirs)
Position
Players
Cards
I'll look for your name on the winners' board.
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