My understanding is that you are a tournament player. In my experience playing tournaments is all about avoiding risks of being eliminated until you make it in the paid positions, that includes going all-in pre-flop with high pocket pairs. Some players say the only cards that you can go all-in with in early tournament is AA but even that is arguable.

Remember that the earliest you put all your chips in a pot for a single hand, the riskiest it is for you to lose all of them on a bad beat. Favor strong hands and wait to get trips, straights, flushes and full houses then decide if you are still in a winning position before committing your chips to the pot!

You are better off being bluffed or folding a hand you MIGHT have won than risking to be eliminated from a tournament before you make it in the paid positions.

Patience,

Juari

Just wondering if you could make a comment on what I’m about to say.

I play poker on Party Poker and have so for the past year and a half.

I can pretty well perdict what will happen on just about every hand….I’d say well over 50% of the hands end up as bad beats…beleive it or not.

Here’s my comment>

The last three small stake tournaments I’ve played I have been eliminated all three times with the same exact hand….Pocket Kings., after going all in with them. 2 times by flushs that my opponent got on the river, and the last one by Aces one in the opponet hand and then got their pair of Aces on the river actually there was 2 players who called my all in on the flop both having an Ace in their hand.

Anyways, am I just one of the most unluckiest players alive or would you say this is not uncommon at all??

I should mention…… I’ve noticed on this site that Pocket pairs, especially big pocket pairs K,Q, A’s lose way more then they win, not just for me but in general. Is this normal or do you think there’s something fishy going on??

Thanks for any response, I’d appreciate it.

Richard