As you play a poker game with opposing players, you should be picking up on their ways of playing draws, mediocre starting hands, and strong hands. I think that multi tabling limits the chances to do this, but I feel it is key in giving yourself some sort of edge in the game, as a recent SnG online demonstrated to me.
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My eventual heads up opponent would not put down any strong starting hand at all, would call most raises preflop with a draw or mediocre starting hand, and was drawing strange numbers of cards with certain hands. This made them tricky to play against, and left me unable to pick up blinds through pure aggression preflop. I knew I had to try something a little different, and sat back to play a patient game, trying to keep my chipstack on an even keel. I knew that my capability of making the right folds would work in my favour against his apparent lack of knowledge about where his ‘fold’ button was situated.
I started with considerably less poker chips though, and knew there was a chance that I might not be able to turn things around in time anyway, but luckily I found a favourable situation in time. My opponent could not fold their Two Pair, and doubled me up, despite having enough chances to sense danger with the game being Pot Limit.
I then proceeded to pick up a few pots post draw when my opponent drew one, as I had seen him often drawing to inside Straight draws amongst other long shots. I walked into a two pair once or twice, but I was adapting my usual play to single out his weaknesses, and was wearing his stack down. I eventually got a little lucky to be dealt a pat hand against his Two Pair, and that was enough to take the rest of the poker chips in play.