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Reducing Variance in MTT’s
Playing in multi-table poker tournaments is always great when you’re on a hot streak and collecting big cashes. However, you might get the urge to quit when things aren’t going so well and you haven’t cashed in a while. This being the case, it’s important to do what you can to reduce variance in MTT’s,…
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Poker Tournament Bankroll Management
Just a few days ago, we discussed the importance of using ROI to measure how profitable you are in poker tournaments. Of course, return on investment numbers don’t exactly give you a handle on poker tournament bankroll management, so it’s worth discussing this concept more in-depth. Starting Amount The best place to begin with poker tournament bankroll…
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Calculating ROI for Poker Tournaments
One very useful tool for measuring your success in poker tournaments is return on investment (ROI). The basic definition of ROI is how much money you’re earning back from your buy-ins. Unsuccessful players will have a negative ROI, while really good poker players will have positive ROI numbers, meaning that they’re profitable. So obviously it’s…
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Strategy for Late Registration Poker Tournaments
Some poker players contemplate whether or not it would be advantageous to purposely take advantage of the format offered in late registration poker tournaments. In other words, they consider the benefits of registering late for these tourneys rather than buying in on time. Benefits and Drawbacks to registering Late As for the perks to registering late for…
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Stealing in Poker Tournaments
One of the most difficult things for beginning poker tournament players to deal with in terms of poker strategy involves rising blinds. As experienced players know, the further you get into a tourney, the more blinds force you to play aggressively in order to stay alive. Unfortunately, many recreational tournament players either don’t get this concept,…
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Shoving Short Stacks in Poker Tournaments
When playing poker tournaments, we’d all love to have the cards fall into the right place, and not have our chip stacks in danger at any point. Unfortunately, this only happens to players in the rarest of circumstances, and the vast majority of the time, you’ll be dealing with a short stack at some point…
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Dan Shak’s Condo goes for $7.4m
Poker pro Dan Shak proved to be recession-proof after selling his lofty New York City condo for $7.4 million. Shak, who bought the home back in 2005 with his ex-wife Beth Shak, originally paid $7.2 million for the property. However, he was somehow able to swing a $200,000 profit while selling it seven years later.…
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2011 WCOOP Main Event down as expected
The 2011 WCOOP Main Event attracted 1,627 players, and will be offering almost $5 million total to the top finishers. But while this is one huge online poker tournament, it doesn’t quite measure up to the 2010 WCOOP Main Event. After all, the 2010 WCOOP ME set records for an online poker tournament when over $12.2…
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Poker Backing Industry suffering
The once thriving poker backing industry seems to have taken a major hit following Black Friday, where several of the world’s largest poker sites were forced to stop offering services to US players. With this being said, many online poker pros still have lots of money wrapped up on these sites (especially Full Tilt Poker),…
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2011 WSOP Attendance Fears
One of the main concerns going into the 2011 WSOP was that attendance figures would be way down. And these concerns were certainly valid following Black Friday (April 15th), where PokerStars, UB Poker, Absolute Poker and Full Tilt Poker were temporarily shut down. On top of this, all four poker rooms were forced to stop…