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When playing at a table with a total of six players instead of ten means that there are eight fewer cards dealt at the start of the hand. The overall effect of this on the game is that there are fewer premium hands dealt out; most of the best cards usually stay in the deck.

During the World Series of Poker season we saw a lot of people at the bottom of the final table chip counts come back to win bracelets. This happened because they were willing to engage in all or nothing bets, and very often they found someone at the table willing to oblige them.

Betting big with a scare card on the table often leaves people questioning whether or not you have a legit hand, or if you’re just bluffing. Showing some major aggression with a benign flop is an act that may have more legitimacy to it.

Hold’em tournaments attract hyper-aggressive players like rotting cheese lures vermin. In a Sit n’ Go tournament your task will be to figure out how to deal with these players, while ensuring your survival long enough to finish in the money.

Tight, Aggressive players are the water buffalos of the poker world. This is not a commentary on their looks or hygiene habits, rather a description of what sort of prey they are when playing against them. They fit the mold of a slow, lumbering, yet uniquely dangerous opponent. Running headlong into them when they are behaving aggressively is like grabbing the water buffalo by the horns and hoping for the best. When somebody whose table image and behavior betrays them as a tight, aggressive player (or TAG), knowledge is your best weapon.

What do you do with suited connectors before the flop? Suited connectors are often the result of more migraines then mixing beer, wine, and Yoo Hoo. These cards immediately send visions of straights and flushes dancing through the heads of the player, but can also result in a complete bust (well, more often than not they result in a complete bust.) This fact doesn’t stop people from seeing hope reflected in the suited connectors in their hand, and either they play them wrong and lose money, or they lay them down and shed a tear for what might have been.

The all in bet has been a staple of big poker tournaments ever since the ESPN cameras became part of the sport's reality. There are a number of reasons for this that can be explained from a tactical point of view, but the reality is that the all in bet is exciting: it's the "Home Run" of the sport of poker, and makes for good viewing. Newer players have been watching this on television for years, and it has become an accepted part of the game. In older days these types of all or nothing gambits were less frequent.

What happens before the flop and what happens after it can be as different as night and day. Somebody behaving like a lion before the first three cards hit the board may be reduced to impotent hamster after the flop. Of course this transformation is only valuable if you know they have been neutered and play accordingly. If you have something like a Q-10 or a Q-J, and one of your opponents raises after you before the flop this could have a whole host of meanings.

In the game of poker knowledge is power. This means that the less your opponents know about you the less power they have. So if you can win pots without having to give away any information about yourself, you are ahead of the game. Very few people are going to fold to you just because you have a winning smile so chances are you're going to have to play some poker in order to get your opponents' money. Every hand you play is a potential intelligence gathering exercise for the rest of the table, so there will be times when you want to hide behind somebody else during a hand. In short, you need a Trojan Maniac.

At both the World Poker Tour this year, we have seen some pretty big heads-up leads evaporate. Somebody who started the last phase of a tournament with a tremendous chip lead has often found themselves accepting the second place check and wondering what the hell happened. According to logical concept of Ockham's razor, where the simplest explanation is generally the right one, the cause is easy to diagnose.