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A Quick Guide To Online Poker Tournament

March 19, 2019   Personal game   No comments

Poker comes in a large numbers of deviating forms, and nowadays as online casinos take the field to get hold of your gambling session. Online poker is now a universal online casino game that can be played anywhere and at anytime, its popularity has given rise to many different types of online poker games such as Omaha, Texas Holdem, Seven Card Stud, Better High-Low Stud and other impressive online casino poker variations offerings.

How Does It Play?
Your goal is to stay in the online poker tournament and continue accumulating a sturdy sized chip stack to put up a rising blinds, and knock out other players along the way. You are given a starting chip stack, and blinds will start at very low levels. However, If the tournament doesn’t allow rebuys, you are eliminated from the online tournament after losing all your chips.
It depends on the number of eliminations at certain tables,you may be moved to a different table during the online poker game to make sure that each table has the same number of players and a similar average chip stack and also depending on the payout structure and number of entrants, a certain number of players will sooner or later make it “in the money”, which means they have turned a profit from their buy-in. Let’s say, the online poker tournament that has a $5 entry and a 200 online poker players will have the prize pool of $1000. However, the prize pool is not only for the only one winner, rather it is distributed to a small group of remaining players who make the money.
In some online poker tournament, has an entry fee from the poker players. The money that are collected from the entry fees are added to the prize money. There are some online poker tournament that doesn’t need an entry fees to participate, however, the online poker players here only compete for the “points” to enter to the online poker tournament with prize.
There are some online poker tournaments are encompasses a multi-table types where you will start first with a fixed number of chips, then, start eliminating each player at the table by winning a maximum hands. With the number of players reducing in each table, the remaining players are told to keep the remaining tables full. This continues till the last few players end up at the final poker table. Another version of multi-table online poker tournament is the “shootout” where players dwell at their tables till a single player is left standing at a table.

Online Poker Tournament Rules
It depends on other online poker rooms regarding to their online poker tournament rules. In UltimateBet.com, the rules in their online poker tournament and the following actions are considered to be inappropriate in their online poker rooms:
Collusion with another player or any other form of cheating, collaborative or otherwise.
Agreeing to check a hand when there is another player all-in.
Telling anyone your hole cards before a pot is complete.
Needlessly slowing down during the online poker game.
Attempting to provoke a player to leave or quit a game.
Selling your playing chips for cash.

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Poker Strategies: Playing Position II

March 16, 2019   Game guide   No comments

Just a short follow-up to our earlier discussion of position, and how it applies to poker.

Playing position applies to every form of poker, whether it’s No-Limit/Limit, Holdem, Omaha, Stud, or Razz. Once you understand the strengths of the various starting hands you need to factor in the strength/weakness of your position at the table. Hands that are almost an automatic raise/re-raise in late position, may be only worth a call in mid position, if they are playable at all, and mandatory folds early.

In general, if you are opening the pot (first to act) you will need to have a stronger hand the earlier your position in relation to the button. If you are later in position, but still first to act, you can lower your starting hand requirements and increase your aggression. Take our example of pocket 7’s from Part I. You may want to consider folding if first to act in early position due to the unknown potential of the hands still to act. If action is folded around to you and you are in late position or on the button, a raise is definitely in order. There are fewer people who could compete with you for the pot, making it more likely that you will have the best hand going in if you are called. Same hand, different position, better odds.

Conversely, you can also use your opponent’s position at the table to your advantage. His actions in different positions can help you determine what hands he could be holding. This will, in turn, aid you in making your decision later.

If he is raising in early position, you need to give him credit for a decent hand and judge your hand’s strength accordingly. Similarly, if he is calling or re-raising your bet/raise, you need to give him credit for having a hand. Players usually require a stronger hand to call or re-raise somebody else’s action. You don’t want to start calling with trash hands or re-raising with ATC (any two cards) just because you have position. Having someone already in the pot changes the dynamics of the game and adds another variable for you to consider.

Practice and experience will make taking position into account easier as you go along. After all, position is only one of the many variables you will need to take into consideration while you are at the table.

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