Obvious Advice To Win Poker Tournaments

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CJ from Up For Poker cashed in over five multi-table tournaments this weekend, grossing over $8K for his troubles. How does he do it? How about some obvious advice, courtesy of CJ:

1. Play premium hands strong, get paid off.
2. Lay down hands when you’re pretty sure you’re beat.
3. Don’t slow play unless you’re positive that next card won’t hurt you.
4. Avoid dumb plays (Fancy Play Syndrome is generally wrong).
5. Suckout at least once.
6. Survive a suckout at least once.
7. Win a couple coin flips.
8. Avoid big stacks late.
9. Avoid desperate stacks late unless you have a strong idea you can bust them.
10. Get lucky.

He missed #11, “When you flop the nuts, you probably have the best hand,” and #12, “You’ll know you’re still in the tournament if your number of chips is greater than zero.” Two or three more nuggets of wisdom, he’ll have enough for his poker primer.

The luckbox speaks [UpForPoker]