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Poker tournaments are tough to win. Let's face it, the relentless bad beats and big fields you have to ge tthrough in order to pull together a win once in a while can be an extremely tough grind. That does wear down the psyche of the best of players at times.

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The programmers for Tournament Indicator are still working on keeping this software up to date with all the advancements and changes of the online poker site. In this video you learn some updated news about it's features, and a special offer to those who have never tried it before.

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Although KK is not one of the tougher hold'em hands to play, I mixed it up a little bit with this opponent who has been playing very LAG and since we had clashed several times already, I felt a little more poker tournament strategy was needed to get more value on the river. I just don't think I bet enough. What do you think?

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So you have exercised some solid poker tournament strategy and taken down prize money. Great!, Now all you have to do is use that same good judgment when you withdraw funds from your online poker account. Make sure to do a currency conversion calculation check with your bank first so you know how to request your withdrawal. Of course this is mostly pertinent to non-USA residents.

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This opponent has some very aggressive stats as soon as he joined my table. The good thing for me is that I had position on him and this helped with a big hand later on. Poker tournament strategy often requires intense pot management while you wait for the right opportunity. So first let's look at a couple hands before the big hand just to get a feel for this player.

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Taken from our poker forum. 1 > There is no doubt aggression in Orange M in a poker tournament is necessary. Mathematically and instinctively it is the way to play for maximum profit. The pros have been saying this all along, so there is not much revelation in this. The other night I shoved A4 from early position in orange M and Method told me immediately that he would have folded the hand.

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Late stages of the Midnight Madness poker tournament and there is a lot of action ahead of me where I have AKos in the big blind. This hand turned out weird because of how one of my opponent's played, but I was still faced with a difficult decision preflop.

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Well if you've just been kicked out of another poker tournament and are examining the last hand that you think you might have made an mistake, you are in fact taking the first stride to improving your tournament game.

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Most online poker players start playing only to lose their deposit. In fact a lot of players lose their deposit many times before they start to - think. That's right. Thinking generally happens after players have lost enough money to make the sting of their poor play show painfully on their credit card. "Wow, I lost that much in a month?" Is a common question losers ask themselves.
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You may have heard something called the Gap concept in online poker tournaments before but were unsure of what it was. Well the gap concept basically implies that we need a stronger hand to call a raise with, than we need to actually raise with if we are the the first to act in a hand. For poker tournament strategy, understanding this in critical.
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So I released a new video for Paddy Power Pokerl today based on the tournament strategy - squeeze play. You can watch the video here to get the gist of it, if you don't actually understand what squeeze play is - but my guess is that most of you already do understand it. So the reason for this blog post is to emphasize how the squeeze play comes into play in low limit online tournaments.
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You may have heard the term, “Value bet” in online poker before, but were unsure of what it was. This video will describe the basics of value betting and show a few examples of what factors to use in deciding how much to value bet. But first, a value bet is typically a bet you make when you really, really want your opponent to call you.This is a valuable skill in poker tournaments as well because extracting extra chips out of the few hands you play, really adds up.

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Double barreling in poker refers to making a second betting attempt to win a pot when you have, well, nothing - or close to it. It is definitely a higher risk play so choosing who you double barrel against is one of the main factors in making such a play profitable long term for you. Generally high risk plays, like double barreling also mean to an extent that you are bluffing to win the pot, and you really don’t want the hand to go showdown.
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You may have heard about a tactic in poker called the “stop and go” play but were unsure of what it was and when to use it. The stop and go play is a tournament tactic you can employ as a short stack, typically orange or red mzoned. You actually start this play by calling a raise out of position, which may actually seem like an instant disadvantage, but the play culminates with you making a PUSH on the flop, which hopefully presents a difficult heads-up odds decision.

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So I have tried several poker tournaments at Full Tilt this week - RUSH style that is. JP in the forum got me to go in a freeroll and I also discovered these 135 player sit and go multi-table tournaments that have been filling up really fast. In fact if you thought the 4/180s at Stars fill up quickly, you can get into 3 of these in less time that the Stars poker tournament will fill.

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Playing Ace King in no limit hold'em poker tournaments often requires some aggressive strategy, but you don't want to over-play it, especially when the flop does not hit your hand. This is one of those things that new players often get entirely wrong when they must realize they need to back off in order to stay alive.

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