In this article, I analyze the structure of rebuy tournaments, sharing my approach to the different phases. For beginners and intermediate players.
There is a close linkage between your session time and your table image.
If you play with the same players often this may not be that crucial as your opponents probably have a general perception of your game from previous sessions.
One mistake I often see in beginner NLH players is wrong raising amounts before and after the flop.
The “logic” behind the low raise / reraise move goes like this:
New players often ask me, how would I suggest they build a solid bankroll on CDPoker?
Although the answer depends on several individual parameters like game preference, session length and general aspirations, I can provide some important guide lines which are adequate for all.
It is often said that AK against any pair lower then KK is regarded as a coin flip, that is, a situation where the odds of winning are close to even money (50% to each side).
This is true however there is a certain aspect some players disregard, the coin flip exists when you can “see” the turn and river.
Everyone is familiar with bad beats, and many of you always share your bad beats. However, the reason I am writing this article is that too often I see players go on unnecessary tilt due to a few bad beats, especially in live tournaments.
And sometimes they aren’t even bad beats! So when you do run into a nasty beat, hopefully after reading this article, you’ll take the hit inside and just give your opponent a smile and hope that he’ll continue making the same mistakes.
The kinds of hands that players choose to play at any given time vary as widely as we do. So in order to ensure that you have the best possible read on a player comes down to concentrating on all hands played.
Some players will never play bad hands, from any position.Some will widen their hand ranges when they have position while others will only ever play good hands such as pairs or an ace with a high kicker. And because it is hard to remember how every player has played every hand the importance of making notes on players is essential.
The ranking of hands in Omaha (high only) is exactly the same as in holdem. The betting is always limit or pot limit and it is never played as no limit.
The communal cards (the flop, turn and river) are also dealt in the same way as holdem with betting at the same stages, ie before the flop, on the flop and on the turn and river.
Game (table) selection, like the title suggests, is to be selective of the tables available to you, and sit in the tables that are most profitable (easiest to beat).
It is actually a very simple concept, but I didn’t really take it too serious until one day I got really bored of the game because a majority of my tables were filled with nits, and the game is no longer fun, not to mention my chip stacks had barely changed after an hour of play.
When playing online there is no warning to be heeded from this tale of woe, since the rules of poker and certainly of betting are pretty homogenised.
However, in live play, this is by no means the case and I have witnessed and personally fallen victim to, the sometimes apparently arbitrary rules and regulations that some casinos employ when it comes to poker and especially the betting.
