Jessica Lunsford Blog

If you’re not a big name player with a known play style, don’t waste your chips on advertising your table image in tournament poker. The reasoning behind this is simple. You’re probably going to move table quite a few times over the life of the tournament, and you’ll probably be sitting with different players.

You see the problem here? All the effort you put into creating that image at your old online poker table will be erased as you come to face new opponents, essentially making the investment a mere waste of chips.

Instead, when playing in a tournament, your focus should be on the actual cards you get. The benefits of this method are two fold. If you’re getting a lot of good hands, and you end up playing them well, even if you don’t go to showdown, you may end up getting labeled a maniac. No problem there, you’re playing tight, and just running good. Let someone call you when you hold the nuts when they think you’re bluffing like a maniac.

Instead of getting the solid label of “tight” “weak” “maniac” etc., you will end up constantly shifting your poker online table image, and in tournament play this is never a bad thing. So not only do you not have to waste energy trying to create an image, but you also get to let your cards do the talking, essentially giving your more time to think about other things, like exploiting your weaker opponents.