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 June 16, 2010* Take your image in consideration when playing certain hands. For example, if you were having a good run and have been raising with a lot of premium hands, pay attention when you play a hand like 33 in late position. You have an aggressive image at this point and don’t want to get reraised with a hand like this.
* If you’re in the final phase of a tournament (and most likely not deepstack anymore, considering the high blinds), you better fold the mediocre suited connectors preflop in an early position. Those hands are perfectly suited for situations where you can win a lot of big blinds in a pot with a lot players. Those situations don’t arise that much in this stage of a tourney.
* If you are in the ‘bubble stage’ of a tournament with a decent stack, use it. Try to play VERY tight aggressive preflop (with a good hand selection) and you will finish without much problems in the money and will be able to fight for tournament victory without becoming shortstacked. If you’ll just wait it out till you’ll be in the money without playing too many hands, you won’t be making too much profit in the long run because you’ll be eliminated a lot of times just after the bubble.
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