Assets and Saving Them

Although yes it’s important to make money, it is just as important to not give it away. There are several traps to look for online but here are just a few.

Playing too big too soon – Multi table tournaments average anywhere from five hundred to thousand players. With entry fee’s being anything from $10 to $50. So you will always have at least 9 other players at the table until your down to the last table. This can create a few problems to new players. First that hand that was strong against 3 or 4 players might not be so strong now you faced with more players drawing. Secondly some of the players will play with reckless abandonment to try and get into early chip lead. $10 maybe your weeks worth of money you have set aside to play to others it’s a drop in the ocean. Unless you have the skills to contently be in the final table where the money is these tournaments can be costly and return nothing but experience. Although they are a lot more poker for your dollar, you will need to learn to play this type of format to be successful and not in early stages of learning to play poker.

Low Limit Cash Games are not Tournaments – Obvious statement I know but there is a huge difference between the styles of play. On $1 $2 cash tables there can be typically 4 to 5 players. They could be all friends and be talking to each other on the phone and basically ganging up to get your money out of you. In a cash games you can choose your table in a tournament the seating is random.

Don’t be Put off in the chat box – there will be players who are out to distract you form your game and you will see them tormenting players in the chat box. Don’t take any notice as whilst you’re getting frustrated over their comments and bust replying your not watching the game.

Tournament Tilt – far worse then a string of bad hands. Tournament tilt is where you rush to play tournament after tournament to recoup lost earnings. Loosing a tournament from time to time is ok, if you fining your loosing all of them then accept today isn’t your day to play tournaments and stop throwing more money after lost money.

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