Early Aggression

The next time you play a online poker tournament, pay attention to how the chips move around the table. It took me a while, but I eventually noticed that the poker online players who won huge hands and built up towering chip stacks had a tendency to finish out of the money by the end of the game, and the players who you don’t really notice throughout the game have an uncanny way of coming up out of nowhere at the end to take the game. I’ve put some thought into it, and I think that there are a few contributing factors to this little phenomenon. One, casino players who start out the game aggressively tend to continue to play that way until their chips are gone. Unless you know you’ve got the hand for it, there’s no need to begin a tournament by placing huge bets and trying to steal pots In the beginning of a tournament, the blinds are small, and many players are getting warmed up to the game. This means smaller pots in the beginning, and large bets in this stage are the signs of an impatient player. Even if they win big early on, these overly aggressive players ten to take big risks continually, and these risks will eventually catch up with them and bleed them dry.

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