Bad Moves Lead to Early Exit

November 5, 2008

As any good player can tell you, a bad move can hurt you in a poker game, maybe even take you out of it. When it comes to poker tournaments it is even harder as there really is a specific way to play that will help you stay longer. But if you don’t know what you are doing you will be prone to bad moves and thus will be out before you know it.

There are three major ways to be kicked out of a poker tournament: bluff when you shouldn’t, call a large bet with a weak hand hoping to catch an opponent on a bluff, or gambling too much on a coin flip.

There are ways to help yourself; you just have to be aware when playing. Daniel Negreau says that if you play smart you can last longer. He suggests paying attention to the pace where the blinds are escalating so that you can judge when to make your big moves. Don’t move too early or you could blow it.

He says that you shouldn’t take any unnecessary risks. He says that there are risks that need to be taken so that you can win, but those risks should be calculated. Let’s say you are slowly increasing your stack of chips and you want to get more chips quickly – so you bluff. However, it is not the right time to attempt a bluff and thus you lose everything, or at least a significant amount of your chips.

Sometimes they gamble more on a coin flip than they should have, leaving them vulnerable for the rest of the game. Try not to make the silly mistakes and you will find yourself in it for the long haul.