The Poker Bus

Sunday poker tournaments: 01/29/06

Should these be called Sunday poker tournaments or Sunday lotteries? Well the last week of every month they’re always a little bit less lottery like. Both Party Poker and PokerStars raise the buy-in causing them to have less players, and PokerStars adds deeper stacks and slower blind levels. Still, you need everything to go right for you and wrong for the other players for 8 hours to get to the final table.

My strategy for tournaments with a huge field is playing tight and aggressive for the most part. You want to keep your chips and take as few risks as possible. Wait for good hands and let other people make mistakes. A lot of loose and aggressive players will always try to outplay you and just end up dumping chips to you. Avoid 50/50’s and if you’re going to go all in during a marginal situation be the one pushing. That way you can also win if the other player folds and it shows the players not to mess with you. After a few hours, tournaments usually turn into an all-in or fold fest anyway. With huge blinds and antes you can go from nearly being out to having a dominating stack of chips by just winning a few gambles… or the other way around.

Well here are the results for this weeks big online poker tournaments. The final five in the PokerStars tournament all made a deal and I didn’t get the exact prize amounts. Without a deal first place would have been $222,000.00

Also check out a cool site I found named TournamentMonitor.com. It has articles and live updated feeds for online poker tournaments.