Category Archives: Tournament Strategy
Tournament Poker Survival Strategy
There are two types of strategies you can go for in tournament poker – you can act as though any hand could be your last in which you’re going after the win or the loss, or you can play whats known as tournament survival strategy. In tournament survival your goal is simply to outlast your opponents so you can move your way up the payment ladder.
Understanding your Tournament M Value
Dan Harrington introduced the Tournament M Value to poker players in his book Harrington On Holdem Volume 2 End Game. The tournament M value is a math equation you perform to determine how you should currently be playing at the poker table based on your current chip stack. Different size stacks represent different actions that need to be taken to win the tournament.
Freeroll Tournaments
Well tomorrow will be the second freeroll tournament I’ve played in in years. The last one I was set to at least place before the break, then lost interest. From years past, Pokerchamps had the toughest to place in, something like 1,000-2,000 players at a time with only either 27 or 18 places paying (I forget which, this is years ago.) USA / Titan had the best freeroll tournaments online, too bad they banished US players from playing on their site. It was something like 400 starting players with 40 getting at least enough to start playing at the 0.01 /0.02 tables. Earned a nice paycheck from them before they closed their doors to me. Anyway, let’s go over some freeroll tournament tips I have lodged in the back of my head from yesteryear.
Rebuy Tournament Strategy
Rebuy tournaments operate quite differently from no rebuy tournaments. In a rebuy you typically have a shortened chip stack compared to what you’d start with in a regular tournament. Rounds are shorter and after the end of the rebuy rounds there’s typically an addon available as well.
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