What’s your objective when you enter a poker tournament? I mean, beyond kicking back, having some fun and busting out like a hero with a beer-fuelled bluff.

Well, I don’t know about you, but mine is to win it. And I’m sure that before the shuffle- up-and-deal most people would probably say the same. However, somewhere along the way that goal becomes distorted by trying to sneak into the money.

Now naturally, we all want to win the big prize, but often it’s all too easy to revert to survival tactics (i.e. folding) and to just ‘put up a good showing’.

The fact is that most players who enter tournaments are too worried about busting out when they should be focused on accumulating chips.