Regardless of your level of experience with poker, whether online or live in a casino, there are a few things that you’ll want to take into consideration the next time you sit down to play. These are particularly important in low limit tournament play, because they are the most popular tournaments available, because of their ease of entry, and extensive opportunities for education and best of all, success. Something that many people fall victim to when it comes to low limit tournaments, is in rebuy tournaments. It is extremely important to set a limit and stay with it. Many players will make too many rebuys it determines, because they do not have specific game plan that provides them with a rebuy. Another reason that some players will make too many rebuys is because they simply refuse to accept fate. If the cards are not in your favor, they are not in your favor period. Others simply play too loosely or aggressively at the very beginning of the game trying to improve the size of their stack, only to bust out extremely early, and continue to rebuy.
A great rule of thumb when it comes to rebuys, is do not buy-in for more than 10% of first prize. What this means, is that if the top prize is generally about $500, and the buy-in is only $10, it is important not to invest more than $50 total. This includes your original buy-in as well as the cost of any rebuys that you take advantage of. Another issue that many people have in rebuy tournaments, is that they use the rebuy opportunity as a safety net, and play far too aggressively. Although there is only a specific amount of time that you are allowed to rebuy if your chip stack falls below a particular amount of money, there are many extremely aggressive players that use crazy moves to try to get ahead at the very beginning of the game, regardless of whether or not it makes sense. It also may endanger their opportunity to continue playing later in the game, and actually getting a piece of the pie. Because of this, it’s important to understand that when it comes to low limit rebuy tournaments, you’re not going to be able to run people off at the very beginning, because most people who play it rebuy tournaments are prepared to spend the extra money to continue to play.
Oppositely, it is important not to play too passively. Even if you do not consider yourself a maniacal player, on the opposite end of the spectrum, many people play too tightly. Often, this can be a downfall because if you continually play passively and all of a sudden wake up with her hand and move with it, everybody already knows your strategy and you won’t make any money with your excellent and. In addition, others play very passively because they are afraid to lose or because of their fear of taking a risk. Regardless of the type of player you are, it is important to understand that there are times that you need to be passive and times that you need to be aggressive, and if you type them all correctly combined with a bit of luck, you will take your next tournament.