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| Suppose there are 5 players left and there are prizes for the first 4 only. If the player under the gun does not have enough chips to cover the big blind next hand then you will be probably correct to fold any non-premium hand and hope that utg doesn't get lucky. In general this extends to playing tight if you can survive longer than one or more of the other players left in the game. This will force them to try and win a pot before you have to - if they lose you are one further notch up the ladder whilst if they win you still have a chance to also win a pot and be back in the same relative position to them. Providing that you have enough chips to see the next few hands then playing tight also avoids the chance of immediate elimination and gives the other players a chance to eliminate each other or to agree to make a deal, either of which is to your advantage. In most tournaments the last few players are allowed to agree a deal sharing the prize fund in different proportions to that originally envisioned. A lot of tournaments will end in this way because regardless of how big a lead the chip leader has the blinds are so high that who wins will be more a matter of luck than skill or weight of chips. Fewer than a dozen notable researchers from big-name universities have ever bothered to analyze my gambling online hands play by play. That’s too bad. If more researchers would simply examine my style of gambling online, they’d see a powerful, artistic balance of bluffing, value betting, calling, folding, and raising. Before you conclude that I’m an egomaniac, you should realize that I don’t go around proclaiming that I’m the best at everything for nothing. I have my reasons. So, now that we’ve got that out of the way, let me say that I want you to win at gambling online. That has been almost the only thing I’ve cared about since I was 5 years old — helping others to win at gambling online. It’s my calling. So, when I share with you how I play gambling online, I’m trying to give you the insights that will help you win. There’s a central theme to my gambling online play that dedicated university researchers should use their grants to examine more fully. Letting Them Hang Themselves In thinking back over all the gambling online I’ve played in the past 20 years, there is one single signature trait to my game plan that stands out clearly. And, you know what? I didn’t even realize it until now. The trait is that, possibly more than any other gambling online expert or author, I choose tactics that give select opponents a chance to hang themselves. Sure, sometimes I do a lot of betting with marginal hands and even with silly, hopeless hands while I’m trying to impress opponents by building my “wild image.” My ambition is to be called more frequently when I have strong hands later, because I believe that most opponents’ main weakness is that they call too often. I want to help them exaggerate this weakness and call even more often against me specifically, so that I’ll win even more money than I would otherwise. I do this by choosing a friendly, frivolous, wild image that makes them suspicious of me. |
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