Small Ball Poker Tournament Strategy

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Summary

  • Free Poker Bankrolls: The small ball strategy that I employ is so effective that anyone who uses it can succeed in deep stacked tour.
  • Having a deep stack, and therefore expanding an opening range to include a lot of speculative suited hands and small pairs is a tournament strategy that is going to be punished if a number of short stacks are yet to act behind. This most notably occurs in turbo tournaments where the average stack size is quite short.
  • Beat small stakes poker tournaments. Most books suggest that you either play an overly tight strategy, hoping to trap your opponents who never fold, or an overly loose strategy, hoping to steal lots of pots from your opponents who fold too often. In reality, you should play a strategy that maximally exploits your specific opponents.
  • Some of the pros favour small pot, or ball, poker to build up their chip stack without the risk. When to play small ball You can make a lot of money playing small ball in the early stages of a tournament.

Tournament Tip #1 - Play Tight in the Early Stages. The small blinds in the early stages of poker tournaments tempt many players to play a loose game. Don’t let yourself fall into the same trap. The early stage of a poker tournament is full of loose players. All you have to do is sit tight and wait for strong hands.

The SMALL BALL event took place on the Winamax.fr on Mar 25th, 2016. Kalou81710 won the tournament for $572.72. The only PocketFives member to cash in this tournament at the time it took place was Serbia's markopop991, who finished in 2nd place for $370.65. Markopop991 was ranked in 10,868th place in the PocketFives Worldwide Rankings at the time this tournament took place.

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  • The average cash in this tournament was $18.91 or 0.68% of the prize pool of $2,791.02.
  • This tournament represents the 153th time that markopop991 cashed in a tournament tracked by PocketFives at the time this tournament took place.
  • This tournament was the 1,862nd tournament tracked on PocketFives on the Winamax.fr in the past week.
  • Katangais31 was the first player eliminated from this tournament after the bubble broke, cashing for $30.14.
  • Markopop991 is ranked in 99th place out of 300th place in the PocketFives Serbia Rankings at the time this tournament took place. Blackk and bgatlanta were ranked in first and second place respectfully in the PocketFives Serbia Rankings.
  • The top three players to cash in this tournament, kalou81710, markopop991, and CrAAzy_grind won a combined $1,213.54 representing 43.48% of the $2,791.02 prize pool.