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 How to Manage Your Poker Chips Stack for A Winning Online Poker Play

Managing your poker chips stack is the most crucial part of every form of online poker play, whether it is online poker tournaments, live tourneys or a Texas hold'em game. If you know how to manage your poker chips properly, you can easily make for final tables. If you don't, you will break out in the very beginning round of the game. This article outline some important things that you must consider while playing internet poker games.

While playing poker online, always keep your poker chips as close to the average chip stack as possible. The average chip stack is the total chips in play divided by the number of players remaining in the game. While playing poker online, you can easily find this information on lobby of the tournament window.

If you are playing in live poker tournaments, then you must estimate this number and try to within the average stack until you hit a big hand that will chip you up. If you are unable to find hands that can get you the winning pot, this means that you have fallen too far the average chip stack.

Also, you need to focus on the total poker chips in play. There are two reasons for which you should always focus on total poker chips in play. First, you can easily know the average chip stack. Secondly, you can simply calculate your relative position with that of short stakes and big stacks.

Besides knowing the total chips in play, you must also calculate the stack to blind ratio so that you can make sound economic decisions in marginal hands. For example, if there are 500000 chips in play and you have 50000 in chips while the blinds are 5,000 and 15,000 with a 10000 ante, your decision to play a weak hand is made easier. So manage your poker chips stack properly and you will be winning more and more prize-pools.