After The First Plays - Betting Bigger On Texas Holdem
By Graham Easton, Sun Jan 15th
Are you enjoying gambling in the Texas Holdem No LimitTournaments? Want to know how to advance to win out on top?Learn from these techniques to improve your game.
Middle of The Game - Are You Still In This Texas Holdem Contest?
If you're still in, it's time to tighten up. If you've beenfollowing this series of articles, this should have given you alead over most of the players that simply play high cards. Ifyou are holding above average chips you need to tighten upsignificantly.
To change up, play only premium hands, meaning only pairs(low-medium pairs in the hope of catching a set only) high facecards and suited connectors only if there are many players tothe flop and you can see the community cards at minimal cost.Patience is the virtue of the middle game, and it can be a longboring place to be.
The advantage of tightening up is that come the final part ofthe game; people will have you down as a rock and fold to yourraises. This is a problem when catching good cards inmid-tournament but it's a Texas Holdem Strategy that pays offlater when you are looking to pick up sizable blinds around thebubble (the part of the game when many players are trying tomake it into the junior prizes).
Don't be frustrated that your chip advantage over the averageplayer has been diminished during this period to the point whereyou now hold average chips. If you have more that's great, butmost often I find my chip stack falls to average during themiddle section.
Finally Hitting The Good Players In Texas Holdem
The final part of your Texas Holdem Tournament begins justbefore the bubble explained above. You now have achieved a tableimage of being like a rock - good. This is exactly what you wantcome the end of a tournament.
Blinds will likely be around 200/400 at this stage so the periodof seeing speculative flops has well and truly ended. You nowneed to open up to steal some pots. Start by opening on lousycards - a decent sized bet will have most folding as you've satquiet for a good deal of the tournament.
Usually players will fold to this a couple of times. If you cando this in relatively quick succession then not only will youhave picked up lots of chips but if you actually hit a hand saywithin 2 or 3 hands of those bluffs then your opponents willthink