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3-card poker tournament III

September 19th, 2008

It is important to know of some tactics and follow them if one wants to make an impact in a 3-card poker tournament and emerge as a winner. One of the first and foremost things that a player should not do is placing larger bets. It is a common psychological fallacy that placing higher bets means with some luck, more money can be won. However, this fact is not supported by any mathematical formula and it has been often calculated that those who play for higher bets, generally lose. And in a typical 3-card poker tournament, the odds of a large hand is extremely low and improbable, if not totally impossible. Moreover, anyone playing with large bets must make the allowance of playing lesser number of hands if he loses and a gambler eyeing the ultimate prize should not let this happen. In fact it has been mathematically calculated that as larger bets mean larger losses, it can eliminate players prematurely. For example, in a tournament played with an initial amount of $3000 with 20 hands of play possible in a round, a player will go bankrupt in just four rounds if he wagers $250 on ante and pairplus bets as each loss will make him poorer by $750. Moreover, it is also advisable to put equal bets on the ante and pairplus wagers as it has been practically seen that placing a heavier bet on either one of them eventually means a loss-making investment.

Another thing to remember for the player aiming to win a 3-card poker tournament is not to follow Martingale betting strategy. The reason is that the 3-card poker game is so much based on fortune that there are no grounds to assume that betting more or less on a particular hand, can improve one’s chance to win or lose. So, it is best to decide on the bet size and wager the same amount every time.

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