The Poker Lab Rat

When you know your hand is no good, even though you have a monster, just throw it away. Listen to your gut and throw those cards in the muck. In the long run, you will come out way ahead simply by getting away from it.

When playing online tournaments, it never ceases to amaze me how many players get eliminated in the first 5 minutes – often in the first hand!

Do not get involved in one of these early acts of madness unless you have the stone cold nuts. Likewise, there’s no need to risk your tournament life on a coin flip while the blinds are so small. It’s a marathon, not a sprint. Let the crazies knock each other out with the knowledge that you can take their chips later. When you get close to the money it is a great time to change gears and steal some blinds and pots away from the many people who are playing just to survive and scrape into the money. Play to win – all the big money is at the top. If you played 50 multi-table tournaments, you are financially better off winning one than placing 20^th in all of them!

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