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Poker Articles

If you want to keep up with all the strategy articles I've written, then look no further! Sort by topic, publication date, or alphabetical order. Some articles are available here in full. For others, check out the abstracts, and use the citations to obtain the articles in full.

Let's Make a Deal!

Poker Helper, Jun 2007

Tournaments generally finish in one of two ways: 1.) one person has all the chips (or when N players remain in the case of a satellite paying the same prize to N players) or 2.) the remaining players in a tournament make a deal in which they chop up the remaining prizepool in a manner acceptable to everyone. All my tournament articles here on Poker Helper have addressed playing dynamics relating to condition #1.

However, it’s inevitable that at some point in your tournament playing experience, you will be offered a deal. When you’re offered a deal, you’d obviously like some way of judging its fairness. Additionally, by becoming acquainted with the theory of tournament deal making, you may identify opportunities to lure your opponents into deals that are beneficial to you.
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