Playing Strategy

Tournament Strategy

Many different factors need to covered when it comes to the perfect strategy approach for playing any poker tournament so i have started to put together some of the more obvious things that need to be covered.

Many people fail to grab the concept of how specific hands should be played in tournaments under different situations and conditions. So below I have listened some good articles on very important hands and some not so important.

Playing hands such as

• Pocket Aces
• Big Slick
• Pocket Jacks
• Pocket Queens
• Ace Queen
• King Queen
• King jack
• Jack Ten
• Ace Rag
• Seven Deuce
• Pocket Three's
• Practise Hand

Of course whether of not you have it down to a fine art of playing all your hands correctly, you must also take into consideration what your opponent is up to. This part of the game is probably more important than playing every premium hand to the book. This is why all the information made available to whilst not in the hand should be collected and stored in the memory bank for the times you need to use it, or in our case every time we enter a pot.That's why tells become ultra important. If by chance you are lucky enough to come across a tell on any of your opponents its a must you take total advantage of it and use it to its full .Below are a couple of links to how the pro's look at the tells around them at the felt.

• Poker Tells by Daniel Negreanu
• Poker Tells by Dutch Boyd
• Poker Betting patterns by Joe Benik

This is a section developed for my own self analysis and instructional purposes. Any documents or articles I come across in my quest to better my game I will add to the Tournament strategy section or Cash game section and so on.

I hope these articles are as beneficial to you as they are to me..... Good Luck Skipper