May
26
So you have doubled up a few times and are running good. Several weak players at your table have literally handed you free chips and you have a couple maniacs who you have just up so perfectly where all you need is a medium strength hand to let them have it. You can already envision a good payout in this tournament nearing the bubble when all of a sudden…. table change.
Just when you have reached a complete understanding of your table and knew instinctively what to do in each situation, the announcement comes to let you know, “We are rebalancing tables…. you have been moved”. Gee thanks.
In multi-table tournaments this is the norm, so you really do have to get used to it, but the randomness of it happening can sometime throw you off guard in an unsettling way. Even tilting some players into poor judgment plays as soon as they move.
Well if you are using Tournament Indicator there are some things you can do to alleviate such a stressful occurrence besides of course, taking extra precaution in each hand at your new table.
The first thing you should know is that Tournament Indicator has a history function that can store previous profiles of opponents for up to two years. So when you do change tables make sure you have the history button selected as those tracked opponents will show up with stats from this tournament or any other you may have been in with that player.
Secondly, if the tournament is down to just a few tables, maybe even 5 or 6 and you know you have a stack that is going to take you deeper, why not open all those tables? Tournament Indicator will quickly attach to them and you can be then be collecting important information just like you were at each table. When table do collapse, the players which survived will all be in your history file so sitting at the same table with them isn’t going to be so foreign.
Finally, with your new tables first hand underway, Tournament Indicator automatically displays that player’s current mzone using clear color indicators. Now how is that profiling at a new table? Well tournament conditions can often override someone’s normal playing style, so if your opponent happens to be in red or orange mzone the likeliness of him being aggressive is already more plausible.
Using Tournament Indicator to its fullest will provide you with critical information that hopefully translates to better decisions. That part is all up to you though.
Marty Smith has video reviews of all the online poker calculators so you can see them being used before you decide which one is right for you. He also has a poker tournament strategy video series that is free poker training just for signing up.
May 26, 2008
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