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Beat the poker Gods, Know your odds!
To win in the game of hold’ em you need to know odds, and a lot of them. In poker you can measure your odds by knowing how many cards you can get that will make your hand a winner, these cards are called outs.
For example if you have 2 hearts in your hand and there are 2 hearts on the flop do you know the odd of getting the 5th heart to complete your flush? Well with 2 cards to come you have a 35% chance of hitting your flush on the turn or river.
An easy way to figure out your odds of making a hand is to simply multiply the number of outs you have by 4, this will give you a pretty close percentage of hitting your hand. Example, if you have 4 hearts and want to know the percentage of hitting the 5th heart just multiply 9 (the number of hearts still in the deck) by 4 which equals 36%. The actual odds are 35% but this methood is close enough. If you only have one card to come just multiply your outs by 2 instead of 4.
If you don’t like to do all that math just cut out the Holdem odds card below. Poker is all about odds so make sure you know them!
5 Tips to Improve your Tournament Play!
1. Want to improve your end game? Want to build your level of experience in playing final tables? Want to learn how to 'close the deal' and win an event? Play a single table satellite! And when you do, pretend you are at the final table of the World Championship. Remember, every chip is precious. Playing single-table tournaments is great practice for the end game of multi-table tournaments. The strategies are very similar; with the biggest difference being single-table tournaments usually take less than an hour to play, where the multi-table tournaments take over 4 hours to play.
2. A good basic strategy for the single-table tournaments is to play solid, playing only premium hands in the first three rounds. After that, open up and play more hands, becoming more aggressive the higher the blinds get, and the shorter handed the tournament becomes.
3. Be a bettor, not a caller. Remember, the bettor has two chances to win, the first being you might be able to show down the best hand, and secondly, if everyone folds, you win an uncontested pot!
4. When your chip stack gets less than five times the size of the big blind in a no-limit single-table tournament or a multi-table tournament, consider moving all in with any two cards as long as you are the first one in the pot. In these situations you are just betting that no one has a hand that they can call you with. If you do get called and have the worst hand, you might get lucky and draw out on them. If you aren't the first one in, you are joining a pot with automatic competition.
5. In the late stages when you have a large stack of chips and it's one or two spots from the money, it's easy to rob players that are desperately trying to make the money. Play more aggressive in that spot, reduce your starting requirements, and pick up some extra chips!
Next month we will continue this artical with another 5 tips to improve your tournament play!
See you next month,
Nathan
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