Tournament Selection

Jan 3rd, 2009 | By Juari Boskovich | Category: Tournaments

Tournament Selection

Structure

You should already know about the different types of tournaments your favorite online poker rooms are offering. The different tournament structures are not all profitable for example the turbo tournaments where the blinds increase every 3 or 4 minutes depending on the site it is played at removes alot of skills from the game, you are dealt fewer hands before the blinds are increased and will be quickly short tracked if you are not dealt a good starting hand to begin with or steal a pot by bluffing.

The blind structure is very important when you select your tournament winning poker is achieved in part by being patient and patience is required to win tournaments. You will be able to read more about playing styles in the next articles as I will emphasis on building a tight, aggressive playing style.

The tight agressive players are only interested in premium hands which does not come by very often. They rely on the slow blind structure to give them time and play with strong starting hands.

Finally, we will not be covering TURBO tournament strategies.

Opponents

We all know without other players, we can’t play poker. Make sure you play at a popular poker site with over 20,000 players online at all times, from my experience, under that amount of users you may have to wait a long time before your Sit’n Go starts.

Take into consideration you will move up to higher buy-in tournaments where the amount of players is often lower and lower as you climb the ladder with your strong bankroll.

Benefit from Cash Rewards and Bonuses

Almost all online poker rooms seem to be providing a first deposit bonus. While a few of them are legitimate, some others will do everything they can to give you the least possible amount of money. Full Tilt has one of the best and quickest bonus program I’ve seen. PokerStars also offers a good Bonus plan for new players, you can register and try both if you want.

In case you have already an account on these sites but don’t use it much, you should register again under a new nickname to get more out of the Bonus plans. This is possible even using the same personal information you used the first time. And don’t trust Bonus plans offering over 100% first deposit bonus as they are sneaky.

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