Simple Strategies to Win at Texas Hold’Em Sit and Go Tournaments

For an avid poker player, sit and go tournaments are very important since this is a great way to build your bankroll and earn some extra cash.  Aside from this, sit and go tournaments are also the best way to get a seat into one of the major poker tournaments, especially if you are strapped for cash and cannot afford to pay for the huge buy-in fees.  Although playing your best at sit and go tournaments is a must, it cannot be denied that you will need some simple strategies to stay in the game and ultimately achieve what you are aiming for.

Play Premium Hands

Once you have a good hand, you should never let it go because it could spell success or disaster for you during the sit and go tournament.  [Read][more...]

Haralobos Voulgaris Talks about Continued Aggressiveness as a Poker Strategy

Today's poker players are so much more aggressive, especially the younger players.  Because of this, you really should have a good strategy to win your poker games.

Professional poker player Haralobos Voulgaris proves that selective continued aggressiveness is a good strategy, as he has shown in the 2008 WSOP's Main Event.

The 2008 WSOP

The blinds were set at $100 for the small blind and $200 for the big blind, and the player situated in the middle position raised his bet to $600.  Voulgaris were given AK of hearts during the small blind, so he raised his bet to $1,600.  His opponent then called his bet. [Read][more...]

Online Poker Tournaments — Where the Action is

Before, casino gamblers flock to land-based casinos to take part in major tournaments, but with the proliferation of online casinos and the fact that many gamblers are now favoring online casino games, it can then be said that the real action is in these online casino game tournaments, not in land-based casinos.

But what do the online tournaments offer that land-based casinos cannot?

More Tournament Variety

One of the things that attract many gamblers to participate in online tournaments is the fact that there are more tournament varieties online than in land-based casinos, so you are definitely given the option to choose the tournament you want based on the budget and the skills that you have.  [Read][more...]

Holdem tournaments vs Ring Holdem

What is the major difference between a ring or cash game and a tournament in the game of Holdem?  The games are technically played the same and the card values are the same, so what is different in the games.  The one difference is the player can rebuy as long as they want and never be forced out of the game even if all the chips in the present stack are lost.  When the stack is lost in a tournament, the player is knocked out of the game permanently.  The fear of being knocked out of the game can be a determining factor on whether a player will call or raise or not.

Online you see a great many all in bets as the game is played with a great deal of pressure.  In live tournaments the online players play the same and the old timers took a while to get use to the pressure these young online players brought to the game.  They still do not fold if they think they have the winner, no matter what is bet.  However the fear of getting knocked from the tournament is an ally in the betting sequence.  [Read][more...]