Common Poker Mistakes – 5 Tournament Mess-ups To Avoid

There are a few things you definitely don’t want to do in a tournament. Learn these common poker mistakes and win your next tournament easily.

Poker tournaments would have to be one of the funnest, grandest things in all of poker. The opportunity to pay a little and win a massive amount is second to none. Plus, the amount of experience you get playing poker tournaments is intense. You can become a very good poker player, for a very cheap amount, by playing a lot of tournaments.

But poker tournaments aren’t all fairies and ice-cream and a walk in the park. They are hard. They can be hard, if you make silly mistakes that are completely unavoidable. But there is one funny thing about the most common poker mistakes – a lot of people don’t even know they are doing them, or that they are bad.

Learn These Common Poker Mistakes And Never Have Another Mess-Up In A Tournament

Common Poker Mistakes For Tournaments #1

Tightening up too much when you feel the pressure. All this does is get’s you blinds stolen in the future. A tournament is a very delicate balance of tight and loose. Don’t get too tight and don’t get too loose.

Common Poker Mistakes For Tournaments #2

Telling or telegraphing the strength of your hand. Well, of course this is bad, but it’s more widespread in tournament’s than you think. I think it’s because when in a tournament players want to say ‘Look at me, I’m good’ and do it when they have a good hand.

Common Poker Mistakes For Tournaments #3

This goes hand in hand with the next mistake of not bluffing enough. By not bluffing, you are effectively telegraphing you hands all the time. Bluffs are a critical part

Common Poker Mistakes For Tournaments #4

Massive mistake in a tournament: taking on a blind defender for no good reason. It’s great to steal blinds but not from defenders. They just eat up your chips and pull you done. Don’t take them on without a good reason, i.e. good cards!

Common Poker Mistakes For Tournaments #5

This is the worst of the mistakes. Not sticking to your plan. When you play in a tournament you need to have a plan. And you need to stick to it. Veering of course is how you end up in disaster.

These common tournament poker mistakes are everywhere. I am sure you are aware that you did at least one of the in your last tournament.

By now you are probably realizing that the secret to getting good a poker tournaments is researching and learning what to do and more importantly, what not to do. If you begin to experience a feeling of curiosity and intrigue for learning new ways of winning poker than you will most definitely become a great poker player. And every time you have an opportunity to learn more about poker and do not take it, you will become a worse poker player because someone else will learn that and beat you.

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