How to Win at Online Poker Tournaments
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To be successful in the internet poker world, you should follow this simple strategy:
1. Pick a Poker table where there's lots
of action
Poker sites such as Party
Poker, Poker
Room or Absolute
Poker have huge numbers of players at their online poker tournaments
at any given time, day or night. You will always find action here and the
poker tables fill up very quickly. This is a good thing for you, they can't
all be good poker players!
2. Pick a stake level you're comfortable
with
Don't go charging straight to the $50 tables if you've never player poker
before, you need to start small and work your way up so start at the low end
of the scale until you find yourself winning there, then move up. Consider
it as your apprenticeship into becoming a fully fledged poker player.
3. Fold almost all of your hands
This is the hardest part especially for new players. They fold a few hands
then they'll see a flop of J J 6 when they've just folded the J 6 and the
cautious approach goes straight out the window. Remember for every hand that
you would have won, there are probably five that you wouldn't so stick to
the game plan.
4. When you do get a big hand, bet it aggressively
If you're using this strategy, you need to win the pots when you do land a
monster hand so you need to come out betting strongly. Avoid slow play and
trying to lay traps unless you really know what you are doing, most of the
time these tactics just let your opponent have a cheap look at the next card
which could make his hand a winner.
5. Change your tactics as the game goes
on
As players are knocked out, hands that you would have been folding in the
early stages become more attractive so you should start to consider lesser
hands, especially in late position in the dealing. This has the added advantage
of unsettling your opponents who have become used to seeing you folding almost
every hand.
6.
Don't go all-in
Your aim is to get into the final three so that you're in the money. Don't
go all-in unless you know that you have the best hand. There's no harm in
putting an opponent who's short stacked all-in though, take the opportunity
to get rid of any players you can from the game.
Being successful in online poker tournaments is relatively simple, you just
need to have a plan and have the patience and strength of character to sick
to it.
Article by Ian McIntosh*
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