Live Satellite Poker Tournament Strategy
A satellite tournament is a qualifying event that serves to offer players a less expensive opportunity to enter a bigger buy-in event. Satellite winners usually win the buy-in to a larger.
- He has amassed nearly $40 million in prize money, making him the biggest live tournament winner of all time. One of the biggest differences between cash and tournament poker games is the diversity of stack sizes, and it is essential to account for this when determining the best strategy for a tournament.
- At it's most extreme, ICM strategy can make A♠A♣: an easy fold preflop. Imagine a situation in a satellite where 9 players get a World Series of Poker entry and there's 10 remaining. The action folds around to a player with 100,000 in tournament chips who moves all in from the small blind.
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Abridged Audiobook
Written By: Dara O'kearney, Barry Carter
Narrated By: Dara O'kearney
Duration: 3 hours 32 minutes
Summary:
The best way for small stakes poker players to earn life-changing amounts of money is to win a satellite into a bigger tournament. Yet there is surprisingly little poker theory written about how to win satellite tournaments, until now. In Poker Satellite Strategy professional poker player Dara O’Kearney gives you a framework for how to approach every stage of a satellite tournament, from the early levels right up to the bubble. This book takes the stress and uncertainty out of satellites.
You will learn:
- Adjustments you need to make from regular poker tournament strategy
- What hands to shove, call and fold on the bubble
- When to tighten up and when to keep accumulating chips
- Easy poker math to do at the tables
- The correct poker GTO ranges (and how to adjust to to different player types and situations)
- When it’s correct to fold Pocket Aces preflop
Dara O’Kearney is a professional poker player from Ireland with a long standing reputation as the best satellite specialist in the game. He has won over $1 million in satellite tournaments alone and twice won the PokerStars UKIPT satellite leaderboard. He is sponsored by Unibet Poker and is the co-host of The Chip Race Podcast.
“In the first 30 minutes of reading, I guarantee you will pick up something that will increase your future expectation to cover the cost of the book tenfold” – Marty “TheLipoFund” Mathis, partypoker PPL Satellite Leaderboard winner
“A highly recommended book for anyone looking to play satellites well or related formats like Double or Nothing where multiple finishers receive identical top prizes” ~ Collin Moshman – author of Sit N’ Go Strategy