Custom Poker Table Tips: Be Cautious Chasing Small Pots

I just can’t say enough about Poker Phd Daniel Negreanu. I’ve written about him and just love his attitude and poker style. Recently we uncovered one of the best poker articles Daniel has written. He has a fairly regualr column for The Grand Rapids Press online. This story involves tips for dominating poker tournaments by winning small pots. Some of the items discussed are playing less strong hands, and playing suited hands and painted hands more. This of course needs to be done with discretion and caution. Here Daniel describes how winning small pots is key:

“Tournaments are won by aggressively going after smaller pots with a range of starting hands. The trick is learning how to do that without becoming reckless.”

Everyone wants to win tournaments, but none of us want to make that one slip that puts us low stacked or even worse gets us knocked out of the tournament. Take this golden tip from Daniel.

“This may surprise you: In deep-stack tournaments, ace and paint hands such as A-J, A-10, K-Q, K-J, K-10, Q-J, Q-10 and J-10 are significantly stronger when they are suited.”

Suited hands give you extra outs for flushes. Daniel goes on to tell how not all hands with an Ace should be played, but depending on where you are betting compared to the button you can test the waters every so often with a raise. Overall, this is now a link in my Poker Favorites folder. We all want to win tournaments and now we know to play small pots aggressively to grow your stack and win. Definitely read the rest of this Daniel Negreanu article posted on the Grand Rapids Press. Find it here.

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