No-limit tournament poker and World Cup poker players
Poker tips for poker playing world cup footballers... and YOU!
TOURNAMENT TIP If you are only just getting involved in no-limit poker tournament play, remember keeping your stack intact is your prime concern early on. If you find yourself in the happy position of having built a good stack by mid-tournament, your main focus should be attacking and destroying the small stacks and avoiding the big ones who can put you out if you make a bad judgement call. Your chip advantage allows you to bully short stacks by going all-in when the time is right and this is how you build. Small victories over short stacks during mid-term play is key. Only take on a chip leader if the flop confirms that you definitely have the goods to damage his stack.
WORLD CUP & POKER It comes as no surprise to learn that dozens of the Northern European players have been killing time in their swanky hotel rooms between matches playing online poker. What has been a surprise is the mass public surge of online play directly after a big match finishes on television. The half time (cup of tea) electricity surge has been a monitored fact of family life for decades now. If reports coming in from all the big poker companies are to be believed it looks like 2006 is going to be the year an equal surge onto poker sites by adrenalin junkies trying to keep the buzz going has become a part of modern sports fan behaviour. It’s certainly possible that the online punter STUD666 you just trashed in a heads up is a bored mid-fielder five-starring somewhere in Baden-Baden.
POKER QUOTER I heard a telling quote from Barry Hearn the famous boxing and sports promoter the other day. He said, “Sitting down to play poker is like sitting on the stool before a big fight! There’s a massive rush!” A man who obviously takes his game seriously. I always thought it was like sitting down to play cards.
BAD BEAT A lot of new players seem confused by this term. It describes a situation where the player who loses actually had the better hand at the outset of the game but ultimately suffers defeat to a guy who started out with a lesser hand. To “lay a bad beat” refers to the action of the victorious underdog player in pulling off the win.
