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Tournaments refer to poker games where players play until they run out of chips, with the last person having chips being the winner, the second to last taking second place, and so-on. There is no direct correlation between chip value and money - rather, players are paid based on their finish in the tournament.
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Why offer guaranteed prize pools?
The guaranteed prize amount depends on the average number of players in this particular tournament in certain time interval. I think that poker rooms definately have statistics based approach here. … If you find a tournament where actual prize pool is under "guaranteed" from day to day, then obviously, it is leak/mistake of the poker room and you definitely should use it. …
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Joining an offline poker league - can being new be used to my advantage?
From my own experience being aggressive is quite effective when you just joined the poker club and don't have any image. It means that from being neat you will not benefit advantage, but lose-aggressi …
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Quantifying the amount of luck required to win a tournament
The common conditions/rules of being independent from luck in the tournament:
1) You are playing tournament with deep stacks and reasonable blind level lengths. … Taking into account these factors will reduce the influence of luck in the tournament to a minimum.
Update:
(Answering the comment from @TTT below the post). …
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When should you defend your big blind in tournament play?
Basically it depends on some factors:
the available statistics and notes to the opponents.
tournament stage
your stack
opponent's stack
General Big Blind behaviour:
we tend to defend blinds against … the "stealer", who is more loose/agressive than average
we tend to defend blinds in the late tournament stage
we tend to defend the blind against the big stack (probably table chipleader) with premium …
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