The Survival Instinct In Poker
Texas Holdem No Limit Poker tournaments are real endurance races in which the key to going in the lead squad to the end lies in finding the proper balance between chip stacking and survival. Therefore, the main goal is not so much to get the largest number of chips, as to achieve the maximum benefit with the minimum risk.
Do not play in situations in which you have no advantage (regardless of the cards), avoid mistakes, make the right decisions and take the right risks, are the necessary requirements to survive with guarantees in a tournament.
This does not mean, however, that you have to play in a conservative way. On the contrary, the stacking of chips is also necessary for survival and if you do not promote it to the necessary extent, you will not endure the progress of a tournament and you will end up falling eliminated, exhausted by blind bets and without a stack to continue. In competitions, the number of chips needed to ensure a quiet subsistence grows as the levels of blind bets increase, so the piling of chips must have, at least, a minimum rate of growth.
On the other hand, the survival instinct must allow you to be prepared at all times to assume the consequences of each and every one of your actions, both offensive and defensive. You must be implacable when taking advantage of any coherent possibility to eliminate an opponent. You have to pose difficult decisions to your opponents. You must counteract with firmness and rigor the direct attacks you suffer, no matter how aggressive, to instill fear and respect. You have to face danger with the best of victory options. And you even have to be continually prepared to respond to all-in attacks from your rivals.
Good players should avoid imprudence, cowardice, haste, honesty, and conservatism. In that way, their survival instinct will lead them to success in the No Limit tournaments.
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Yes! You need a proper survival instinct to listen to your gut feeling. With good intuition you can win several hands and maybe reach the top spots on the tournament.
Something important, and a mistake I made in yesterday tournament was getting to excited when winning a lot of chips and started to bet more than usual.
You need to remain calm and if you can’t control your excitement after winning a big hand, the best is to sit out for the next play.
Another advice is, in case you are losing and are almost eliminated with blinds eating all your chips, just use a kamikaze attack and put a blind ALL IN. You might end up winning if someone’s else bet, if not, you win other people’s blinds, and if you lose well you were already about to be eliminated!