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Raising middle pairs over limpers in the early stages (regardless of buy-in) is somewhat risky.Set mining can be a profitable play for you when you can keep your entry costs low. Most of these calls in early stages are correct for implied odds strategy. A five times raise is not a big hit to their stack and you mostly just don’t narrow the field enough. You end up most times trying to decide whether to continuation bet into an overly large pot with over cards on the board and it all gets a bit too much like hard decisions for me.Sure you can open raise, but if there are multiple limpers I would just avoid attacking them when everyone is comfortable stacks and mzones.

You also can’t forget about the 2:1 odds. If the pot is 1.5BBs pre flop, there is 1 limper, that makes it 2.5BBs. You raise to 3BB, making the pot 5.5BBs and the limper (assuming everyone else folds) has to call 2BBs to see a flop with 5.five big blinds in it. So he is getting nearly 3:1 on his call.

If you think about it, you’re probably never too far behind pre-flop if you decide to play. But there is a problem. Or rather a couple of problems.

The main problem is betting ability of a weak hand. You could end up with three gapped connectors versus big slick. The flop comes down 5 J Q. You are in front by quite a long way, but can you put much money into this pot? Can you even call a standard Cbet with bottom pair out of position? But what if you just bet into the pot? Then what are you going to do when he smooth calls? Now do you bet once more here? How deep a hole are you going to dig for yourself with your bottom pair hoping that it is good?

But what if you have something like pocket threes pre-flop? With a board full of over cards,it’s still tough to bet even though statistically your opponent will have missed as well?

So yes, you had correct odds pre flop, if you could get to showdown for something approximating that pre flop investment. However, in big stack scenarios you really shouldn’t. You still have 3 betting rounds before you get to fifth street.

However there is another problem as a result. You are out of position and that’s not good poker tournament strategy. What this also means is that when you do actually hit the flop, the pots will be smaller. It also means when you don’t make a big hand, you will lose more than your fair share because the player in position will bet you off marginal hands with a worse hand himself.

So really, for these deep stack situations, pot odds are completely irrelevant IMHO. I am only ever looking at implied odds.. i.e. what is the size of my stack and my opponents stack. If we are talking about five percent or less of my stack, I am calling with a LOT of cards. If they have AA, and I have 53s, all the better. I want them to have AA when I am playing 53s for a raise. But if the raise is getting up to around 10% of my stack, then I fold all the weired stuff, except PPs. Still, I am only concerend about the size of the bet compared to my effective tournament stack.

My cards may be 56s and be up against big slick. I have to be rather much httin a huge draw or two pair though, otherwise you will be faced with giving up the hand after the flop out of position. Once in a while you might just want to check here if you hit a low pair, especially if you can put your opponent on a hand.

Even in Every Hand Revealed, Gus Hansen regrets a lot of his calls from players who raise early position. Partly because, such calls often become more difficult place post flop. Gus can look at his opponent for tells, and after all his is The Great Dane. We don’t have physical tells and we are not Gus. Importantly also, our opponents are not Gus’ opponents. Whether you are up against people who are capable of folding strong hands or whether they just can’t surrender TPGK is an important distinction.

To sum it up, pre-flop pot odds are less important than post flop implied odds. Hey, you may play the hand anyway, but look at it from an implied stand point, not just pot odds. You have to know how to calculate poker odds when getting into hands like this becuase it may very well determine your long term success in tournaments. Just knowing Poker rules are not enough to win, you need strategy too.

No limit hold'em poker is a strategy game in which you need to be very appreciative about which hands you play. It's not the amount of hands you play, it's the quality of the hands that you play and the probability of each of them being money makers. Fundamentally, you just need to win the hands you play. Yes, you need a willing adversary to play against your strong hands, but patience is a very important skill and a cornerstone mindset of some of the most thriving tournament players in the history of the game. You need to know more than calculating poker odds and understanding poker rules to win these days.

By keeping a close watch on the play even when you aren't in the hand, you will be able to pinpoint opportunities to play, even without mighty hands. They too can be profitable, winning hands.This is where a strong player may get involved in the hopes of his adversary making a goliath size mistake. Because of these hands, you will be blending up your play sufficiently enough to throw off almost any opponents. You will still earn respect are the aggressor in a hand, but you won't be so decipherable to allow steady aggressive plays against you. Ideally, this is where you will be setting a trap for your over-aggressive opponents who play out of position and with weak hands.

Discipline is very important in no limit hold'em poker tournaments. You need to force yourself to think things through very carefully before you act, even if you're very sure of what to do and what your opponent is holding. Overconfidence, or anxiety will often lead you into the lion's den, if you don't take a few extra moments to think things through. Sometimes, all you need to do is consider for ten or twelve seconds before making your final decision.

The hardest plays in poker tournaments usually require you folding. We all know how that feels. Nobody wants to feel like a mouse getting scared back into the corner of the house after a big reraise by an aggressive opponent. But if it's too early in the tournament, and your tournament chips stack is still yet Green Mzone, then that is very likely exactly what you should be doing unless you know you have the better hand. It takes a huge commitment to winning this game in order to fold the challenging hands, and it's one of the strongest aspects of the game to learn. However, once you understand, you will know how to win poker tournaments.

When you are able to merge this type of patience, discipline and loyalty to your game, you will start to make more and more final tables, steady cashes, and more and more correct plays, which will result, at least he eventually, in profitable final results. I guarantee it.