Published January 17, 2012* A loose image can be very profitable if you make use of it on the right times. Such an image is for example very useful in case you made a call preflop (heads-up or even three way) and the board pairs (with rather low to medium cards) on the flop. A big check-raise in this spot will look VERY suspicious. If they indeed observed your play during the tournament, it’s almost impossible for the preflop raiser to call your raise here.
* The continuation bet is a well known phenomenon in poker. However there are different kinds of them, especially when they are weak there’s a big difference. For example: a weak continuation bet after a big preflop raise most of the times indicates strength (they know the flop is harmless and they try to give you a price to call). A weak continuation after a standard preflop raise mostly indicates weakness (they missed the flop but try however to keep pot control).
* If you’re deep stack in the final phase of a tournament, it’s advised to play very tight aggressive. Just try to win some small pots preflop because of your image. Besides: every player plays more careful in this phase of the tournament.
Published October 16, 2009* If the tournament is still in its early blind levels, be sure to make BIG preflop raises with your premium starting hands, especially in deepstack tournaments. If you raise it three times the big blind in a regular tournament, make it four or even five times in a deepstack tournament.
* Suppose you’re in a limping pot and you flop two pair on a paired board, for example: you hold 68 and the flops comes TT6. If somebody bets into you, consider making the minimum raise here. This way you gain pot control and it looks very suspicious to your opponent.
* A last tip, especially for online poker: if you raised preflop and you are being minraised on the flop by some amateur, don’t expect it to be some kind of advanced move by this guy: he most likely just hit a monster.
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