A Market Spell

A lot of online poker players in both the tournament and ring game worlds will refuse to re-buy. They’re play it and lose it kind of people, but in this article I’m going to introduce you to the concept of how becoming a rebuy “maniac” can work to your advantage when playing poker online. It all comes to table image. See if you have unlimited re-buys in say a ring game, it can be beneficial to rebuy two times before you start bringing your “A” game. Look at it like this: you start off gambling like a maniac. Getting in tons of pots, limping, becoming a calling station, by doing all this you start to make yourself look like a weak poker online player, a fish who other players are looking forward to get into hands with. Then, all of a sudden you switch modes. Not too obviously, but you switch just enough to start playing smart poker. And guess what happens because of the image you built. Even with your monster hands, you’ll start getting called all the time just because you became “that guy,” you know, that guy that likes to give away money. And this is even applicable to tournaments that give you a limited re-buy period. Begin as a gambling maniac, and re-buy, re-buy, re-buy. Of course you’ll be exposing much more of your bank roll, but you’re also giving yourself much more of a chance to loosen up a tight table, and it gives you an inherent lack of credibility, which is what you want when you start trapping with monsters. Play it right, and you’ll soon see you’re bankroll back to even, and then double, maybe triple. That is, if you can play the psychology right. Believe me, this is not a technique for weak willed or inexperienced. But if you’re up for a fun time and a hell of a challenge, you may want to consider putting this in your repertoire of playing styles and moves. Enjoy.