If you want to win a Double or Nothing table then I guess you will need good holdem tactics in order to achieve that. To be honest, for the first time I had ever seen a Double or Nothing game I thought that I had found an ultra easy way to pump up my account. I was very good with the standard sit-n-go games and I have won a lot of tournaments for that matter. But when it comes to Double or Nothing, things are just a little more complicated than that. I just dived into the game like I normally do and I was soon to find out that my money was going away so fast I thought I was hallucinating.
If you are one of those players thinking that you can easily win in a Double or Nothing game, then you are very wrong about that. What you need to achieve in this game is to survive for a longer period of time than the rest of your other five opponents. Devastating them and winning the stack don’t have anything to do here. But if you are not familiar with this game, then let me explain to you how things stand with holdem tactics.
This is a single table 10 seat Texas Hold’em game but it has a catch to it. The buy is for example, $20, ignoring the casino rake. So when the 5 people are eliminated getting nothing, then it’s game over. The rest of the 5 players just double their buy in and they will each walk away with $20. So it is basically played like any other sit-n-go game, but you need to use good holdem tactics in order to win.
The most important thing that you will need to achieve in this game will be to survive by staying out of trouble. I know that in a standard game you always search to put pressure on the other players, but here there is no need for that. You will see that if you chill and don’t act naughty they will beat each other up. That’s because most of them are trying to play they way they’ve seen the “big boys” on the TV play, which is just wrong. Well personally I love it cause they are taking a lot of chances and that means I have more chances to win the game using not to advanced holdem tactics.
Also you will need to carefully monitor each player’s stack size. If you have good cards and the rest of the players that are playing in the hand have bigger stacks then you, it would be a good idea to walk out. You need to know that 4 other players will have the game won and you don’t have to put your position at risk dealing with someone that can easily put all of you in. Just play carefully and use your holdem tactics to target the small stacks as there will surely be players with lower stacks than you.
When playing Double or Nothing you just need to use another strategy than the one you usually use in normal Poker games. If you can control yourself and not play a lot of hands by using your best holdem tactics, everyone else will beat each other and boy is there any more beautiful sight than this one.
This article was written by Alexis.
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