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Online Poker 101: First Lesson, Understanding The Importance Of Time In Online Poker Tournaments (Page 1 of 4)
This is the first lesson in a series of poker technique articles designed to improve online poker players. This article focuses on time as it relates to online poker tournament play. It also explains why taking appropriate actions based on time, is the key for long term success, and increased online poker tournament winnings.
The phenomenon of online poker continues to baffle media experts who continue to expect poker play in general to be a passing fad. For those millions of people worldwide who have played poker or discovered poker within the last decade, it comes as no surprise that this game continues to build explosive and long term stable growth. The reasons are actually quite simple. The game of poker is fun, exciting, challenging and the basic concepts are easy for anyone to learn. These fundamental concepts build the basis for growth, but it’s the extremely lucrative aspect of tournament poker that continues to fuel poker’s explosive growth. With online poker sites offering tournaments ranging in size from $100 to One Million Dollar Guarantees, anyone anywhere can earn a life changing amount of money from a strong finish in only a single tournament. A first place finish in some of the largest online tournaments today can pay upwards of Six Hundred Thousand Dollars or more. While people who place in tenth, twentieth, or thirtieth place, for example can still earn $5,000 to $50,000 for their success. Buy ins for these tournaments can start from as little as $2 for some satellites. It’s the access to this income, and the knowledge that anyone can master this game, that draws millions of people worldwide to online poker. For more information on the Full Tilt Poker One Million Dollar Guaranteed Tournament, or $600 Free Full Tilt Poker Bonus Cash, visit FullTiltGlobal.com.
In order to have the greatest success in terms of wins, and winnings, players need to commit to learning the concepts of tournament play. Reading poker articles like these can improve your poker skills over time, as you master and utilize one concept at a time.
Lesson One: Understanding Time During Tournament Play & Acting Accordingly
Online poker tournaments transpire very similarly to life in general. When we are born, it is very important to protect a newborn child to it’s surroundings. Many times babies are kept at the hospital for several days before being allowed to go home with their families. Over the first few years of life, the routine is quite simple. Focus on the basics. Proper nutrition, sleeping, and protection. After a few years of protection, the newborn has grown into a child who must begin to learn routines. Parents begin to give up control and protection, allowing the child to go to school, camps, church – generally the child begins to participate in activities designed to build equity in the child – helping it to grow. Parents still preach protection – “Don’t talk to strangers,” “Look both ways before you cross the street”. The idea is to allow the child to begin to take small risks, as inevitably life is full of risks. But parents continue to protect, and preach use of good judgement. By the time several more years pass, the child has grown into an adult capable of making decisions, and taking larger risks in life. Those larger decisions could be when to get married, what career to follow, and others. Eventually as adulthood years continue, income increases, and ideally, an adult creates equity in themselves, building a substancial and healthy life for their retiring age. During the earning years it is important to take intelligent risks, where income is the result. Whether through education, investing, or through business startups, it is the sum of these risk taking decisions that determine our financial health in life. Additionally, timing of these decisions can be the key to everything. Once a sufficient sum can be counted on for retirement, it is safe to move this sum to less risky investments long term. Taking risks are avoided early in life, and late in life, while encouraged and necessary, in the middle.
What Makes A Good Betting System
If you could discover a constant and profitable betting method that would run constantly forever, surely that would be a licence to print money – Right?
In my view, thriving betting systems like that simply don’t exist. Why? – Because there are merely so many things constantly changing all of the time, plus many things completely out of our control.
Take football betting as an illustration: player’s vary – manager’s change – teams get promoted etc, and so on. The goal posts are constantly moving and changing all of the time – it merely doesnt make logic to expect every method used for gambling to remain being profitable for years to come devoid of a little tuning and adjustment from time to time.
A betting method that produces the qualifying bets is simply a series of rules to go along with. Therefore, every logic used is simply as sound as the rationale behind the selection process – that’s why I believe in exploiting each and every workable twist to the fullest amount, when it really comes down to using and updating every technique to its absolute greatest capability. The final outcome produces a fully optimised betting method with a solitary target in mind – better overall profits in support of all its users.
What’s vital? First of all, every method used in favor of betting must adopt a highly profitable and unique method. All system qualifiers must maintain a proven long-term track history of profitability and preceding results, but more specifically all current trends must be meticulously monitored as well, creating the ultimate profitable advantage for you to fully exploit.
The betting method used must have been stringently tested, spanning several years of accurate results, using database and spreadsheet analysis to identify simply the very top highly profitable trends – this study is ongoing.
The conundrum with the majority of betting systems is that they quite simply don’t control sufficient data to apply the regular and disciplined analysis necessary. Furthermore, all data needs to be accurate and applied in excess of many years of results and study.
Long period accurate and dependable data will repeatedly create the opportunity to evaluate an exceptionally large variety of diverse scenarios whilst applying stability and control right through the analysis. All of these factors will result in a much better method used for betting that ought to provide you with the level of profits necessary.
I look at it this way – each single year that passes an additional group of highly accurate results are produced. This has the knock-on effect of making the overall method that much better. Analysing 10 years results will be more accurate than analysing 9 years, 15 years more accurate than 10, and so on. Therefore, each single year that passes the method must be converted into that much better optimised for profit.
I believe that there is no such occurrence as a perfect betting method, or a method of betting that will keep on to run forever whilst remaining highly profitable. Human intervention is vital from time to time, to correct and fine-tune the selection process. Thereby, making unquestionably certain that the rules of the method are based specifically on current trends, collectively with complete analysis of proven long-term results – in my view this is the single route to sustaining profitability whilst using every betting method.
-Lawrence Taylor-