Tips Play Zynga Poker Shootout Tournaments

I'll give some tips Play Poker Shootout Poker Tournaments. Please read and understand.

Zynga Poker is a popular online poker game that is played on social networks like Facebook and MySpace. One of the most popular games within the software is the Zynga Poker Shootout. For those new to poker, you should think of a shootout as a 3-round series of single-table tournaments. Each table has 9 players. To win the shootout, you must win 3 tables in a row.

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1. Avoid those All In On The First Hand situations. These are generally not a good strategy for winning unless you happen to win against 4 or 5 opponents on the first hand. This does not happen often enough to be profitable.

2. Generally speaking, play small pots (checking and making small bets and calling only minimum bets) when you have something less than top pair and a good kicker AND at least 10 Big Blinds.

3. Fold right away when you have less then a premium hand (pocket pairs and Aces and Kings with good kickers) or connecting cards down to about 87 (KQ, QJ, T9, 87, etc). There is no reason to try to get involved with weak hands in Zynga shootout tournaments. Just stick with your good hands. Bluffing doesn’t work all that much because bad players call with bad hands and then get lucky by sucking out on you.

4. When you have less than 10 Big Blinds, it’s time to go all in with any decent hand (like the premium hands and connecting cards described above). However, you could still try to play small pots with 5 to 10 big blinds or so IF you have gotten a read on your opponents and feel that they are prone to folding. This requires a lot of practice, so just get your chips in with any decent hands when you go under 10 Big Blinds until you feel you are good at reading your opponents’ folding and calling tendencies.

5. Finally, regardless of the size of your chip stack, any top pair with a good kicker is typically good enough to get all the chips in in a Zynga Poker Shootout tournament. However, you may wish to keep the pot small until at least the flop to see what comes on the board. If it comes something like 789 or all hearts, those are strong draws that could help your opponents. You can choose to avoid all-in situations in these spots, but you should at least bet to get one or more of your opponents to fold, reducing the chances of allowing one of your opponents to draw out to a monster hand.

Betting about 75 to 100% of the pot is a typical amount to get those players to fold. But be aware that some Zynga players call almost every time. So you want to avoid betting too much when you see a player is simply not going to fold.

Ultimately, your goal is to just about break even in Round 1 and 2 combined and make your big wins in Round 3. Remember that Round 3 has five payout spots ranging from $25,000 to half a million for winning at the time of this writing. Play a little tighter in Round 3 to try to make the money.

In fact, you should get progressively tighter by rounds. Round 1 is a very fast tournament with lots of all-in players. You must loosen up a little and play more all-in hands to win those Round 1 tournaments. Round 2 is a little tighter with slightly better players, and Round 3 is ALMOST like a real-money shootout final table except that there will be some bad players that play too loosely and go all in too often (and more limping into pots with calls instead of raises compared to real-money SitNGo play).

Accordingly, you need to be a little tighter and more selective about going all in or playing large pots as the rounds progress. This is because the other poker players are slightly more likely to have stronger hands in Rounds 2 and 3 when they commit all their chips.

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