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 A PocketFives ranked player, 27-year-old Adam Levy has been playing online for several years and has become one of the most successful online players in the world today. The Orlando, Florida, player cashed for more than $1.5 million in online tournaments and recently had a deep run at the 2008 WSOP Main Event, finishing 48th for $135,100. How different is your strategy in an online sit-n-go versus a multi-table tournament? Should you be more aggressive in the sit-n-go? – Superstar22 No, you shouldn’t. You should be more aggressive earlier, but you should be tighter later. In tournaments you are just playing your table. What is your plan for early tournament play – look for a hand to double with or play slow and steady? – Anticure It’s sort of a mix of both. You can’t just play slow and steady to get anywhere; you would need a lot of cards. You have to try to find good spots. Generally, I am looking for the best spot that suits me best. If it ends up that I have to race with A-K, then OK, but I generally don’t like to get into a race that early when there is so much other stuff that could happen and there is a lot of room to play post-flop. What is the best and cheapest way to get better at poker? – Santire12 Reading books can help, but you aren’t going to get good if you don’t play. Play money, even though it is an ideal thing…people just don’t play well enough with play money. Probably the best thing would be to deposit a small amount of money online and not go above your bankroll. You can put in $200 and only play .10-.25. That would be the best way to do it and just try to build. How different is six-handed versus nine-handed play? Badgirl1 There is a lot more preflop action in six-handed. Let’s say you would fold A-9 under the gun nine-handed, well, in six-handed you can raise it UTG (under the gun). It differs just because there are fewer people and there is more opportunity to play more hands because there are six people at the table as opposed to nine. It ends up making it a more fun game than nine-max. Should you ever ignore the math of a situation to go with your instincts? Shark5255 You shouldn’t ignore it, but sometimes when what your instincts are telling you outweigh the math and you know you are beat, you shouldn’t go with the math. That doesn’t mean that if you are getting incredible odds and you think you are beat you should fold, but if it’s a decision that could go either way, that’s when you let your instincts come in. I find myself constantly bluffing off my stack. When do you know to give up on a bluff? – Princess Sometimes you can just tell and there are certain cards that won’t make it believable for you. A bluff works when you get a little help from the deck. Sometimes if you keep betting it will work but a lot of times people just don’t want to fold their hand. There are going to be times where they just aren’t folding and there’s nothing you can do about it. Sometimes when you feel like they aren’t willing to give up the pot you can find a better spot because you still have chips instead of just blowing away the rest of them. Why do some pros find it important to play ‘small pot’ poker? What is the benefit to doing this and in what situations are you doing this? – Rcems Generally, if you have a lot of chips and your stack is huge, you don’t need to go broke with one pair. You want it to seem like you are playing a lot of pots, but you are really just playing a lot of small pots and have the goods in the big pots. That is the key – play small-pot poker until someone looks you up and then you actually have a big hand. I am an aggressive player, but every time I have the nuts, everyone folds. I thought since I am always continuation betting whether I hit or not, I should always bet even if I flop the nuts. Is this wrong? madnick As for continuation betting, you can just know when certain cards are good for you and certain cards don’t change anything. When you are continuation betting it helps you out for when you hit the nuts and they hit a piece as well, because they can’t figure out which is which. There are also certain flops that are way too weak and you need to let them catch up occasionally, but you shouldn’t always slow-play. At a nine-seat tournament in the early stages, what kind of hands am I opening with? cowboyfan It really depends on the table. If everyone is playing extremely tight and doesn’t want to do anything, then you can probably open a little lighter. If everyone is pretty loose, then you want to be opening a little tighter. It really just depends on what the table is doing. Do the stats of how many hands you play, win, fold, etc., matter? How do I understand these better to help me with my game? Louie in Luton It does matter because generally there is a certain amount that you should be playing. It’s not like it’s a specific amount, but you definitely shouldn’t be playing 50 percent of hands you are dealt. That is too loose. You also don’t want to be playing 5 percent, that is too tight. You have to find that happy medium that is your style. You should know if you are playing too much or not enough. It shows how loose and tight you are playing. It also really depends on your stack. If you don’t have any chips, then you probably aren’t playing that much – less than 10 percent – and if you have chips you are playing more…probably 20 percent is about right. When playing live, how can you work on your body language so players can’t get a read off you? – Jennifer in Nottingham Putting your hands to your face is good. You have to remind yourself to take time and to not react typically or emotionally. Keep it inside. Another thing is if you are looking at them to see how they react, you can’t really react yourself because you are more focused on them. That’s a better way to go about things.
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