{"id":8290,"date":"2010-12-21T11:25:39","date_gmt":"2010-12-21T10:25:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/?p=8290"},"modified":"2019-11-01T11:10:44","modified_gmt":"2019-11-01T11:10:44","slug":"5-tips-on-how-to-win-poker-tournaments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/5-tips-on-how-to-win-poker-tournaments.html","title":{"rendered":"5 tips on how to win poker tournaments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\">When I first started playing poker, I got a lot of advice from different players. That sure messed up my head, because every one of them had a different style so I ended up with 50 different tips on how to play. Not the smartest thing to do when you are preparing for a big event.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">But, then I found one person that had the patience to tip me, support me and play with me. It was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/kara-scott\">Kara Scott<\/a>. She was always patient and knew how to approach me. Maybe because she is a girl or maybe because she is so cool, I found her advice much more appealing and they did help.\u00a0First big event I cashed 46th out of 440 people. Not bad, in my opinion, don&#8217;t you agree?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Well, this time I found somebody who is really great and chilled too and also, very successful. A great dad, loyal husband, cool friend and a winning poker player &#8211; ladies and gentlemen, I give you Ben Carpenter (MYBIGGUNS) &#8211; the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/\">PartyPoker<\/a> top tournament winner this year and his 5 tips on how to become just as good as he is.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Hope you listen and learn &#8211; maybe one day you will be giving me some more tips and seeing me at the final table of the WPT not only doing interviews but winning trophies!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I first started playing poker, I got a lot of advice from different players. That sure messed up my head, because every one of them had a different style so I ended up with 50 different tips on how to play. Not the smartest thing to do when you are preparing for a big<\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/5-tips-on-how-to-win-poker-tournaments.html\" title=\"Read More\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":79796,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2182,300],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8290"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8290"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8290\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36608,"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8290\/revisions\/36608"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/79796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8290"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=8290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}