Think before bidding and do not go in senselessness

Online playing is like playing against a bunch of hooded people with sunglasses. The patterns of bidding, their talks, beaks, first hands, game positions and cards beats will tell you muc more about them than you could have found out sitting with them up the same table. It is much easier to win online tournament indeed, you can watch everyone and you can get much more information than taking part in the live tournament, you do not need brilliant memory to catch p with all the details. The simplest solution – make notes.

If you are not going to do anything at the moment, watch and study everything, then make notes. And there are some important things to look at:

Every time after hand write down the cards of the first player, his stakes and bids. Do they play having only the good cards? Who bids having what? How high stakes go havin a good cards? Who had bluffed? Which of the players always pretends having the Ace on the flop? Which of the players have got too much testosteron? Who never bids till the last position? Which of the players always beats to steal the blinds and button? Who reserves big blinds? Who protects smal blinds? With what result all of them are behave and build up their tokens? Who has not got too many of them?

Making notes about amount of tokens o the other players is a very important matter in the tournament, but only playing online you can find out the exact amount of tokens of every tounrnament player.

Your aim in every poker tournament is to collect as big amount of tokens as possible, the to play against the owners of less amount of tokens. You do not need good either cards or lots of luck to collect the tokens. The only thing you have to do are goodand agressive bids, not only sometimes but ALWAYS. You have to do it more often then other good players. Do not try to win the tournament after the first hand. Simply do not slow down having a chance o win the stake or the tournament.

The only players who can pray for some luck are the ones with not many tokens left, and all the blinds are consumed by most of the finances. You will see that type of players will go all in and you can bid them with stake with cards, not too god ones to bid somebody else / cards like jack/queen or ace/ jack/. If somebody's all in bid is really big, and you have got big blind or a really big sake, you can call in with any two cards- of course if double of the stake did ot cause they are 'healthy'.

If you want that someone to bid do the maximum bid you think he will go in.

If you want someone to fold, do the bid for abnormal amount of money. If anyone will go all in and you relise that he is better you can fold with your cards.

When you play in the tournament, numbers/ stakes and possibility/ and your position are much more important than your received cards. If you can try to identify all the players, who wait for good cards, this is the group you can steal the tokens from very easily. Just beat them with big blind and beat them again with your next move after them and then bluff, if they did not manage to hit the flop. Try to take care about a good image by the first table and every following one too. It can be your bluffing licence.

Try to guess what other players think about you. Who folds, when you beat again? Who thinks that you are an agressive player? Can you bluff successfully? Who thinks that you are the bluff person? Play agains this player only nuts.

During the online tournaments watch the chat a bit but do not chat. One playersays to the other one: 'you idiot, how can you bid with the queen and 10', then you will find out that this type of player will never ever call in with the cards like that, or he will have to swallow a big sip doing that. If someone cries with the bad cards, which always win, then you know that the player thinks that good hand should be continued, it is a kind of frustrationfor everyne who takes it. The best hand is holded more often than all the others but not much – especially when two people can see the flop.

You need lots of notes about hands, people playing on the different positions, the information about stakes, when and if they will go all in and when will they beat again. If you can see their cards, make notes what cards they had at he beginning. All of above will help you during the game. You will be really pleased, when you join to the new tournament and you see that you know all about the bluffing person on teh seat no 7 and agressive player on no 5. Then you are leading with the other players. It is a good option when during the new tournaments you will go o the new table. If you have any information about just one player then you know much more then you would have known playing live tournament.

Apart from the notes there are many more priceless sources of information about the players which you can use playing online. Use every available statistic on the tournament. The lobby of the tournament, you can usually have it open during the tournament. This is heaven's gift, you can watch what is going on duing the whole tournament.

Have a look at:

How many players is still in the tournament?

What is the average amount of tokens and how is your pile of tokens to all the rest of the players?

Who leads in the tournament?

Are the tournament leaders collecting the tokens sistematically? Or maybe the have just appeared from nowhere? / You can open another window and watch how are your cards doing? Are the players relaxed or stressed? Whic way do you think they got the leading? The answer might inspire you, it can be helpful to go to the final table playing against one of the current plaers/.

Who is constantly in the top game?

How much time before break?

When the blinds are raising?

Let the time to work fo you. Lokk at the clock. How far you are to make some money? Is your pile of tokens big enough to let you pay? How many people is still in the tournament? Have you got enough tokens to put the blind and use the players who are afraid to lose the tokens? How high the prizes are? Are you happy with the lower prize which probably will not be higher then your entry fee, is the third place good enough for your ambitions? Considering all the questions above you can make a decision how much risk you would like to take.

Some of the poker websites will let you check your playing statistics. How do you play? Can you last 12% of time to the flop or 45%?

You have to remember that if you have lots of tokens you cannot count on luck. The players with few tokens can only count on luck. The players with lots of tokens play for big stakes not small. Try to play good. Do only reasonable bids against the right players. Do not do stupid calls. Try not to go at all unless you want to settle the trap having the best cards. Carry on doing it til the game is finished, till the tournament is finished and then you will get the prize.

Special advice about re-buy tournaments.

Do not enter into the tournament if you cannot afford to double your tokes with re-buy, and after one hour using the add ons. You have to be prepared for at least two re-buys. You have to know that in re-buy tournament the aim of every player is to finish the hour with the highest amount of tokens than you can buy during re-buy and add-ons, to be ahead of your opponents. Some of the re-buy tournaments players are crazy and later on they act with the plan and rules, sometimes too much.