At different times of the poker tournament the image of your opponent will be very important. For the first hour you will ride your tight image and not think about the nuts hands possible. During this first hour you do not mind losing with hands like Q-7 or K-8 because you are weddings and you are happy to be there. You will not be jeopardizing many chips with hands like A-4 or late stages with A-K.
As the blinds go up and especially as the antes kick in, then you must begin to loosen up your starting hand requirements. You will no longer limp with pocket 2’s or pocket 7’s because those hands no longer hit. You will ride your tight image and not see many flops. However, you still need to play some position based hands that can hit a monster and double up your stack.
If you limp with those hands and happen to hit a monster hand like you did in the beginning, then you will once again double up your stack, plus you will take a big hit in blinds, which leads to more possible tournament finishes. There is just a difference in having a big stack and having a big stack at the right time.
Being able to make those big plays Delivers a big payoff sometimes in a MTT. Most online tournaments have around 150 players at a table. The top 20-25% of players are going to end up paid. As long as you are making those big plays, you will be alive longer than you are now. But, you need to add the element of some other quality hands into your standard play list.
When you are card dead, most players are card dead. The higher levels of poker you play will require you to champ yourself up to survive. Especially at higher levels of poker you will have to move all in more often. Because of the way the structure of the game and blinds and antes shift from table to table.
Being card dead doesn’t necessarily mean you are not playing any hands. The truth is you are playing dangerous hands in a dangerous position. The cards you play and the hands you don’t is the very crucial balance between making a bad decision and making a good decision.
Online Poker provides a number of easy to follow guidelines on how to deal with a guest player who is not in the proper disposition to play. Reserving yourself for the most dangerous hands is one of the best rules of thumb to remember when you play late key positions. Having not played a hand for a long time in a key position is dangerous. One would not want to discovery you are prone to playing poor starting hands as a guest player.
The element of surprise is a high risk when it comes to utilizing this strategy. The higher levels of poker the less element of surprise, and the higher levels of risk means the higher reward. But, the reward is far greater when utilizing this element of surprise. While you are up, at least you will have the same amount of money as other players that dosent work for you.
If you entice a fish to call in rags and then take all their chips, they may call with any two cards against any other player. You take away their ability to accumulate chips by sick out calling.
Not all the players at your table are pigs. Please remember this fact, as another reason to use the strategy of surprise. Some players are willing to fall on the sword for more liberal playing decisions. While other players are difficult to read and always at the wrong place at the wrong time.
Finally, there is the idea of using the tool of your Dewapoker to get a rising hand and thereby increase your odds of winning the hand. Quite a few players overlook this idea and concentrate on surviving. You can increase your odds quite considerably and there is little risk in trying.
There are many other reasons to play from the button position. But, only two are necessary. Perhaps if you test these two ideas, you will be convinced to never play from the button ever again. Then, you can move all-in anytime you like.