From the desk of Online Poker Player Marty Smith; Does this statement sound familiar? One of my website visitors sent me this recently, asking about my strategy for online poker tournaments. I told him I was setting up this special report for low buy-in, online poker tournaments.

The MZone Video Strategy Series is now available to anyone who wants to improve thier tournament game. You can even watch the videos while playing a tournament because it's much more interesting and effective to watch a video than read a book.

In a recent 3 month period I cashed $25,000US in prize money in low buy-in tournaments. And that was playing the $2, $5 and $10 entry range tournaments that normally send players to their wits end with extremely loose and care free opponents that seem to get rewarded for poor play, time and again.

Can you make the adjustments to win?

Guess what? I have heard all the bad beat stories I care to, because I have been through about the same amount personally, and probably more than you. The difference is, I made adjustments in my game. After a successful tournament run where I made 41 final tables in 3 months (I had only made 1 in the 2 years before that), I can tell you that it was only after I began to understand the concepts of the MZone, that I truly understood what it takes to win a tournament with a big field populated with poker clowns. The low buy in tournaments are not the same you see on TV, and require different thinking, not always based on hand strength.



“I’ll tell ya HOW I beat the odds and made over $30,000 in tournament prize money even though I face the same challenges you do as a player… and it won’t cost you a penny.”

So this is where you can learn, what I learned the hard and expensive way. All you have to do is watch the videos. Oh and did I mention that the best part of this deal is that the MZone Video Series is absolutely FREE.....

After this video series you aren't going to be asking yourself anymore...  "Did I do the right thing?" Instead you will be saying to yourself, "Wow, I played good!" - When you play good the prize money WILL follow.

Listen, I am NOT the best tournament player by a country mile, but I am better than most at the lower buy-in levels, and this is where you need to start to learn how to win. From there you may very well surpass me, and if you do, I will have done my job, and feel a lot better for it. In the meantime, check these stats from one of my online identities.



These final tables and prize money happened in a span of just 3 months with most buy-ins between $2 and $10.

Poker Calculators and Multi-Table Tournament Strategies

Certain factors in MTT play have inherent value on your hole cards. AKos is much more powerful when you are a big stack, as compared to when you are amongst the short stacks and playing on the bubble. This exact situation happened to me last week in the Party Poker Million. I folded the AKos after an early position raise from a big stack, and a re-raise from another big stack. I felt my hand was at least counterfeited, and surely, I must have been up against at least a pair Queens. It was really a question of $500 bucks. I was short enough to know I was out of contention for big money, so I decided to go for some money. But knowing the true strength of my AKos in that spot was how I folded.

Poker Calculator Report - It's The Decision that Counts, Not the Outcome

So after every hand you are involved in, start marking in a notepad beside your game window if you made a mistake or not - NOT whether you won or lost money. A huge pot win could have been deemed a mistake such as you being a 4:1 underdog with 99 against your opponent's JJ and a river 9 saves your tournament. Of course there are other factors involved but after the fire from the hand dies down, realistically assess your action and tabulate a right or wrong in a notepad and keep a cumulative tally as well.

Latest News: First Ever Poker Calculator Designed For Online MTT Tournaments Released

Poker Calculator Report: Tournament Indicator Review

Of all the poker calculators available on the market, none of them have ever addressed the needs of the amateur online player that focused his play and growth in the game by way of tournaments. Let's face it, the new players that come to this game are by and large, influenced by tournament action seen on television.

So why hasn't this huge segment been addressed in software? The reason (at least in part) is because programmers may feel there are just too many variables and nuances in a tournament that are simply too difficult to quantify. Stacks, position, structure, escalating blinds, profiles, payouts, rebuys, qualifiers.... and on and on. How can a poker calculator cope with that? Even Roy Rounder's Sit and Go Shark set out trying to master single table tournaments failed miserably at offering clear advice - instead reverting to multiple, automatic coaching style quips that more often than not conflicted with each other at critical stages!. Yikes what a mess that was - and a shame really.

Now things are getting interesting because recently, I got an email from the designers of Hold’em Indicator. They tell me they have a new piece of software for tournaments, and ask if I could I test it for them. Now just the fact it's from the group who designed the best poker calculator interface on the planet, I am now far less skeptical than I am optimistic.

I start playing with this brilliant blue, sharp looking software and discover it is based upon the MZone strategy, a key decision factor professionals use in real tournaments. In fact Dan Harrington predominantly based his top rated tournament strategy book on this single concept. "The most important single number that governs your play toward the end of tournaments is M, which is simply the ratio of your stack to the blinds and antes. This number is crucial and you must develop a facility for calculating it quickly and easily at the table" says Action Dan.

I used the Mzone tournament strategy myself and went on a respectable run last summer earning $25,000 in tournament winnings. Not huge to some of you, but these were from very low buy in tournaments. I made 41 final tables in three months! To put this in perspective, I made one final table in the two years before that! I even created a spreadsheet that I used by my tournament window that calculated the Mzone with some inputting on my part. Yes Dan, I agree. Understand the MZone, and you can start winning tournaments - even online!

So upon that good starting premise I tested the "tournament strategy and poker odds calculator" software. True to form, I am impressed with its simplicity and seamless functionality. Now finally, thank you for this, I don’t have to calculate the Mzone anymore. Not only that, it calculates the Mzone for my opponents as well

I find myself wondering why this product not been created any sooner. I mean most internet players play tournaments, right? This is especially true of the hundreds of thousands of players who are working from limited bankrolls, just trying to get ahead in this game.

Here is the clever reality of Tournament Indicator. It avoided the dubious challenge of making recommendations in a tournament - by NOT making recommendations! It does however provide you with an array of indicators (as well as the MZone) that allow YOU to make the right decision at a game critical intersect. These same "indicators" are what the pros use to make to make correct decisions in tournaments. Making correct decisions win tournaments, but often those decisions may seem, and quite likely are, counter-intuitive to standard book play. Tournament Indicator shines a bright light on those opportunities, and will guide your way to more money finishes, and deeper money finishes.

If you are in that group of striving online tournament players learning your game and working towards earning some prize money worth braggin’ about, then Tournament Indicator is your ticket. In addition, this is about the best piece of software you can have running for single or multi table sit and go action, as it works just as effectively.

The brilliant simplicity of the Tournament Indicator software is not lost in this, the most feature rich poker calculator ever created. Besides the critical Mzone, there are extensive profiling indicators, which you can adjust yourself, if you like. I also really love something Tournament Indicator calls MatchCards. On a screen you can toggle to, your hole cards will be matched up against other common hole cards that may be putting pressure on you. When your do or die moment arrives, you are going to have to make a good, and perhaps uncommon decision. MatchCards is going to let you know exactly where you stand. This feature alone is worth the investment.

Someone at Tournament Indicator was seriously thinking about real tournament action here. Evidence of which is within the profiling grid, where there are also columns that monitor streak and balance totals - as in, how have your opponents’ stacks changed, and how many hands have they won or lost over the last 10 deals. If you want to know which of your opponents is (ala Mike Sexton) frying an egg on his head, just refer to these indicators. We all know the tempo of a tournament changes rapidly at times, and that is why tournament play is all about what has happened recently. Tournament Indicator keeps you as the most informed player at the table, and that will translate into more money finishes, and deeper money finishes.


Review by Marty Smith