The various kinds of dead money in the early stages of a big online tournament have in common a lack of investment from the players or their inability to play optimal poker. Translated by John T. Chance.
The various kinds of dead money in the early stages of a big online tournament have in common a lack of investment from the players or their inability to play optimal poker. Unless a remarkable chain of luck, these players will distribute their chips, and it is your responsibility to get your share before these chips will make their way to the roughest and skilled players. Therefore classify some types of dead money and plan our attack to take them.
The bomber
The various kinds of dead money in the early stages of a big online tournament have in common a lack of investment from the players or their inability to play optimal poker. Unless a remarkable chain of luck, these players will distribute their chips, and it is your responsibility to get your share before these chips will make their way to the roughest and skilled players. Therefore classify some types of dead money and plan our attack to take them.
The bomber
Some players believe that using carpet is not a mouse at all. These desperados of "double or quits" are willing to risk all their tournament entry fees for a comfortable carpet. They believe that if they are lucky and they double or triple their stack at the beginning, they can handle their big stacks like a big gun and take the reins of the table. This strategy is full of obvious flaws, the least of which is the fact that most players play tight in the beginning, so that the pushing his chips will probably followed by a hand of the first order. One could argue that there is fairness in the flight to go all in without respite, but the risk / reward ratio is upside down. Just one opponent wakes up with a pair of aces or pocket kings to send the bomber crashed into a spin in the sea
All that is his problem, not ours. Ours is just discovering who they are burned heads and make sure they do not take us down with them. A clue to their character is the number of hands they play. Someone dual (or quintuple!) Chips will be much less likely to be emotionally invested in the tournament. It has to make money by going away with his big stack in a big tournament and sees a bunch of false starts precipitates is the price to pay for doing business. Even without such conclusive evidence, you must look at his game The first time he goes all in, can credit it with a real hand (although overplayed). The second time he goes all in, suspect it to have some hara kiri trends. The third time it grows, be prepared to push your turn if you have a good hand. Of course, there is no harm to deviate from its path, as follow is putting your own risk / reward game on the other side "luck favors the brave", and if you know a player is fiercely extravagant and you have a big pair hands, you have a good chance to cut the carpet.
Ill-prepared
All that is his problem, not ours. Ours is just discovering who they are burned heads and make sure they do not take us down with them. A clue to their character is the number of hands they play. Someone dual (or quintuple!) Chips will be much less likely to be emotionally invested in the tournament. It has to make money by going away with his big stack in a big tournament and sees a bunch of false starts precipitates is the price to pay for doing business. Even without such conclusive evidence, you must look at his game The first time he goes all in, can credit it with a real hand (although overplayed). The second time he goes all in, suspect it to have some hara kiri trends. The third time it grows, be prepared to push your turn if you have a good hand. Of course, there is no harm to deviate from its path, as follow is putting your own risk / reward game on the other side "luck favors the brave", and if you know a player is fiercely extravagant and you have a big pair hands, you have a good chance to cut the carpet.
Ill-prepared
It is unclear why these players are so unprepared; Perhaps they did not realize the time the tournament would have or maybe they are just tired or have blurred mind - is it still they are there, and you need to go enjoy. You know them by their light calls with marginal hands. See someone involved in a raised pot with K8o and you can be certain whether he can not play better (see below the "bicycle wheel") that it does not lend importance to results in the tournament. If you could have the chance to have one of these players to your right, you can re-raise to isolate him leaving you with reasonable players hand and then bet on the value of your hand when you hit. One of the few approaches of these unprepared players to reach you is to be lucky, finding a flop like K8x for example, when you have AK and they K8.
The other danger is lower you to their level. If you know that your opponents have standard aperture of light, you will be tempted to lower yours. This is the time to remember that patience is precious when the chips are worth little. This is not because the unprepared players offer their chips it is absolutely essential that you go looking for them. If looses their calls make you do it even looses calls, you run the risk that stronger players you play, you have a hand or not. Generally, you do not want to get involved in reckless adventures beginning of the tournament, but if unprepared throw their chips on your way, you must be willing to pick them up.
Wheel bike
The other danger is lower you to their level. If you know that your opponents have standard aperture of light, you will be tempted to lower yours. This is the time to remember that patience is precious when the chips are worth little. This is not because the unprepared players offer their chips it is absolutely essential that you go looking for them. If looses their calls make you do it even looses calls, you run the risk that stronger players you play, you have a hand or not. Generally, you do not want to get involved in reckless adventures beginning of the tournament, but if unprepared throw their chips on your way, you must be willing to pick them up.
Wheel bike
As you know, some players use tournaments, especially online, to learn poker and sharpen their weapons. This is not a bad idea, because it allows them to see many hands, and many decisions for a fixed price. They can play as badly as possible, and they can not lose more than the entry price of the tournament. However, they will probably lose this investment precisely because they lack the experience to play well (or even just to play properly). They will be predictable blunders as calling raises with hands like QJ or A3, surjouant their small pairs, neglecting to make continuation bets or, conversely, overestimating their hand by betting too much for the circumstances. Use these weaknesses as landmarks. Notice, for example, players who play their draws when the odds do not justify it. If they make this rookie mistake, they will make a whole bunch of other errors of the same kind.
Money beginners is easy money, and it is vital that you identifiiez and to enjoy as you can. Bluff them, trapping oncoming them, attack their blinds and generally, try to destabilize their game if they are too tights, encourage them to play more tights. If they are too looses, do what you can to make them even more looses. Do not be afraid to talk a little with them. The desire of new players to talk about their lack of tournament experience is surprising. Be friendly ... then blithely are tapping into their carpets.
Sweet [weakling]
Money beginners is easy money, and it is vital that you identifiiez and to enjoy as you can. Bluff them, trapping oncoming them, attack their blinds and generally, try to destabilize their game if they are too tights, encourage them to play more tights. If they are too looses, do what you can to make them even more looses. Do not be afraid to talk a little with them. The desire of new players to talk about their lack of tournament experience is surprising. Be friendly ... then blithely are tapping into their carpets.
Sweet [weakling]
Since it is accepted that the appropriate strategy during the first stages of a big tournament is to play little and not invest with the hands of the first order, you will see many players at your table that seem to do nothing at all. Perhaps they are distracted by a replay of Friends, but it is more likely to have made a conscious decision to sit on their hands unless something really goes interstellar there. It is difficult to make these chips because the players will very rarely in a pot. But again, it is easy to avoid paying since telegraph the strength of their hand also playing tight, and you can safely throw most of your hands when they raise.
Or, if they come with a raise, you may decide to vary your game against them, their softness giving you an opportunity to sign fight. Yes, you guerroierez against a hand that is stronger than yours, but you probably know what kind of hand you are dealing. Avoid paying with hands like AQ or AJ as players abnormally tight probably will revive with big pair or AK, hands that dominate and crush as your second order. But if you pay with a 87s kind of trash, a flop like 873 gives you the opportunity to carpet a player with a pair of aces. This trick requires luck, but we're talking about luck applied, no random luck; in other words, a plan seeking the right time to be executed. It also assumes that you are smart enough to fold your hand if you miss the flop. If you do not have this capability, then simply play tight poker and patient, like everyone else.
Speculators
Or, if they come with a raise, you may decide to vary your game against them, their softness giving you an opportunity to sign fight. Yes, you guerroierez against a hand that is stronger than yours, but you probably know what kind of hand you are dealing. Avoid paying with hands like AQ or AJ as players abnormally tight probably will revive with big pair or AK, hands that dominate and crush as your second order. But if you pay with a 87s kind of trash, a flop like 873 gives you the opportunity to carpet a player with a pair of aces. This trick requires luck, but we're talking about luck applied, no random luck; in other words, a plan seeking the right time to be executed. It also assumes that you are smart enough to fold your hand if you miss the flop. If you do not have this capability, then simply play tight poker and patient, like everyone else.
Speculators
A particular kind of tournament players consider that the road to paradise is paved with speculative hands. These players like to limp in family pots to try to flop a monster, especially at the beginning of the tournament when they think that such speculation into their budget. This approach has its merits, but only if the table cooperates. If the speculator limp too frequently, malignant opponents - you, for example - will realize and punish with big raises that speculators will have neither the hand nor the guts to pay. Sometimes - it's really not so rare that it - you can find a table full of these researchers flops. Let them have their family pots a few times, just to make sure that you read correctly and then plan to send a big raise or late position or the blinds, and their chips invested lightly literally slip to your carpet.
If by chance you get paid, pay attention to very connected for prints after or color flops, because it is precisely for this kind of flops that speculators go fishing. If you encounter such a flop, you must decide whether to go aggressively charging the speculator, you must be back hoping to get a free card, while being ready to give appropriate. On the other hand, if the flop contains large scare cards as AKJ or KKQ, go ahead and bet the pot was like you. Speculators will struggle to pay unless they speculated with a hand that exactly matches the flop. In all cases, hedge payers are just another kind of weak players / looses and you should consider it your duty to take their chips.
This is not an exhaustive list of types of bad players that you find in online poker tournaments. There are others: there are even legions. But remember that dead money, like water, a level, so make sure that your hand finds its way to you before it flows everywhere.
If by chance you get paid, pay attention to very connected for prints after or color flops, because it is precisely for this kind of flops that speculators go fishing. If you encounter such a flop, you must decide whether to go aggressively charging the speculator, you must be back hoping to get a free card, while being ready to give appropriate. On the other hand, if the flop contains large scare cards as AKJ or KKQ, go ahead and bet the pot was like you. Speculators will struggle to pay unless they speculated with a hand that exactly matches the flop. In all cases, hedge payers are just another kind of weak players / looses and you should consider it your duty to take their chips.
This is not an exhaustive list of types of bad players that you find in online poker tournaments. There are others: there are even legions. But remember that dead money, like water, a level, so make sure that your hand finds its way to you before it flows everywhere.
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