There are lots of opportunities for going broke at UBPoker and none of them will sit well with most players due to the fact they lost money, but some will hurt more than others. When you lose your stack due to a mistake that you made it usually hurts a lot more then if you get beat on a bad beat or draw. When you’re at the poker table there are always thoughts going through your mind about how you should play certain hands, and some of your thoughts will cost you more then you think.

When you’re thinking about certain thoughts in your head you need to be careful about listening to your thoughts because they can make you go broke. When you play poker you need to look at the odds and then follow what the odds are telling you for the most part. You also need to look at the opponents in the hand because this can help you decide what to do. You should never listen to what you’re thinking though and that’s what you need to learn from this article. We’re now going to look at five thoughts that could hurt your bankroll more then it ever hurts.

#1 – The other player is bluffing

One of the first things that come to my mind when playing certain opponents in hands on www.FullTiltPoker.net is that there bluffing every time. This thought process can hurt you a lot because it could sway you into making the call when you should be folding. Once your opponent shows his hand it hurts a lot when you get beat because you know you talked yourself into making the call when you shouldn’t have.

#2 – You start using pot odds towards making a call when you shouldn’t

Say you’re on the button and everyone folds up to you and you decide you want to steal the blinds and make a raise from the $2 big blind to $10. At a $1-$2 game when you put a $10 raise in that is a pretty average raise and most times you won’t get called. If you get raised to $20 though you need to fold, but often players will say well I already got $10 in there so I might as well pay the other $10 to see the flop. This isn’t smart thinking and you’ll lose your stack very fact playing like this.

#3 – You think you need to make a bet into the pot

Often after a raise pre-flop you will feel like you need to make the continuation bet into the pot to see where you stand in the pot. This can be a good idea once in awhile, but seven out of ten times you’ll just be throwing money away to your Full Tilt opponents. When you don’t hit your hand it can be safe to say your opponent has a good chance that he/she hit a piece of the flop, which means you’re in no place to bluff.

#4 – It’s only $2-$10 more

When you’re in a pot and already paid your money to see the cards and it gets raised after you have gone it’s hard to lay down the hand to a small raise. Most people feel it’s only another couple bucks and will throw the money into the pot, but if you count how many times you do that in a session it will add up to around $20-$50 depending on how long you’ve played. If you’re losing this much due to making unintelligent calls then you don’t deserve to win money at the poker table.

#5 – Thinking you’ll play until you’ve got your money back

Once you lose money in a session it’s very hard to leave the table and call it quits for the day. Most players will want to continue playing until they’ve made there money back, but this isn’t always the best thinking. You don’t want to keep playing in order to break even due to the fact you’ll be trying to hard to win the money and leave and you’ll most likely end up losing more. Some days you just need to call it quits and leave until the next time you can play. Luck isn’t always on your side and you need to minimize losses and maximize profits. Also be sure to be on the look out for PokerStars Cheats while you are playing.

Poker Star has the most revolutionary poker room in the industry right now and if you still haven’t checked it out then there is a good reason to during the holidays. Starting on Dec 1, Poker Star started running there “Christmas Cracker” promotion which is an event featuring 13 tournaments with guaranteed prize pools. Winners of the tournaments will also have a chance of winning some great Christmas gifts from PKR apart from the prize pool.

The tournament schedule is nicely set-up and they haven’t rushed the tournaments so you still have lots of time to play in them. The first tournament started yesterday and there is one tournament everyday until January 2nd with awesome prize pools. Poker Star has guaranteed to add $170,000 in cold hard cash to the 13 tournaments so you can guarantee each tournament is paying out big bucks. Some of the gifts you’ll have a chance of winning include an Ipod Touch, Playstation 3 and Home Media System. These aren’t cheap gifts and they’ll be making someone’s Christmas a little extra special this year.

If you’re away over the holidays and can’t manage to make any of the tournaments before January 2nd PokerStar hasn’t forgotten about you. PokerStar is holding a freeroll tournament for $5000 on January 11th which gives everyone lots of time to settle down after the holidays and get back into our daily routines. In order to participate in these free tournaments, make sure you use the PKR Bonus Code when you register. It’s also a freeroll tournament so it won’t cost you anything so you should join PKR now so you can secure your sport in this awesome tournament which is sure to be a hit.

Download Poker Star today and sign up for the tournaments being held during the holidays, have buy-ins ranging from $10-$250 and almost all the tournaments start at 6PM. On Christmas Day the tournament doesn’t start until 8PM so you have lots of time to eat your dinner before heading to the computer. I hope to see you all in some of the tournaments and wish everyone a Merry Christmas.

Many of the multi-table tournaments that are played throughout online poker rooms at sites like Poker Stars have rebuys in them which simply means once you lose your chips you have the option of rebuying back into the tournament by paying for more chips. Just because there is the option to rebuy back into the tournament you’re playing doesn’t mean that it’s the right decision to make. There are some factors which you should look at before you rebuy into the tournament you’re playing and we’re going to look at those factors throughout the rest of this article.

* One of the first things I consider when I’m debating about rebuying back into a tournament is whether or not I deserved to be knocked out. If I had the best hand when I went all-in and I got unlucky on the river or something then I normally would rebuy into the tournament. If I lost the tournament because I wasn’t playing my best poker then I would usually not rebuy.

* From your analysis of your competition thus far in the tournament you need to determine how strong the playing field is. If the competition is really tough and you don’t think you can see yourself placing in one of the money places then you shouldn’t rebuy. If you genuinely believe that you have a shot at finishing in the money on a site like CarbonPoker than by all means rebuy back into the tournament and see how it goes.

* See how many players are left in the tournament compared to how many started the tournament. If there are still 70-99% of the players left in the tournament then it might not be worth it to rebuy into the tournament because there is still so many players and so much more could go wrong.

* Ask yourself whether or not you feel like playing anymore or if you would rather take a break. Don’t feel obligated to rebuy because the option is there because if you aren’t in the mood to play more poker than you’re just throwing your money out the window anyways.

* If you’re on PokerStars.it from losing your all-in hand and feel that it will relay into your play when you rebuy then its best not to even rebuy into the tournament.

A lot of people rebuy into tournaments only to try and double up there stack right away because there angry about losing the first all-in. If you plan on doing this I recommend you save your money and just wait for another tournament.

I only suggest rebuying into a tournament like the WSOP when you have a strong feeling that you stand a chance in the tournament and that you also feel like playing. If you want to win then anything is possible, but consider these factors before wasting money rebuying unless you’re totally committed. I also notice sometimes that when I don’t have luck in a tournament that it lasts until I start playing in a different tournament. If I get this feeling while in a rebuy tournament then I definitely don’t rebuy into it, so if you’re card dead then walk away and try a new table/tournament.