To start this article and in my opinion an absolute shocker of a mistake to make when playing in a poker contest is “checking it down” when an opponent goes all in- purely with the purpose to go up in the cash of a free poker tournament.
Now I suppose in some situations it is fine. For instance if there is not much money in the main pot, or there is no raise-equity in making a bet. But I simply hate the play of checking it down just for the sake of moving up in the money. My personal opinion is it takes away from your chance to win the pot. You also can let the other opponents catch up to you, when they would have obviously folded to a bet. It is a much safer play and stronger play to bet instead of check if u have the hand. This way u wont loose any more than u have too.
The following part of this article will illustrate the significance of online free poker tournament bankroll skills.
It is very easy to stack-off all your roll by not following a few bankroll management skills. I have found that Chris “Jesus” Ferguson’s techniques work quite well. In this technique, you can only buy into multi table poker tournaments for no more than 2% or your total bankroll and Sit and Go poker games for 5% of your total.
At NoPayPOKER we suggest that in cash games you should not invest more than 3% of your total roll though Ferguson says 5% is ok. So it comes down to your attitude to risk at this point.
This is very important because good bankroll management is the key to success in online poker. It is also very important to move down in stakes if you go on a bad losing streak. This is problem the hardest thing you can try to do. Moving down in stakes is even more important than keeping a good roll management technique in mind.
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