Misrelate

Often, when a poker en ligne tournament is getting close to the money, where those left in get paid at least what they bought in for, and all the others don’t get a dime, it becomes a pretty sensitive issue to the remaining players over who will ‘make the money’ or ‘cash’ and who won’t.

For this reason, during a multi table tournaments (or MTT), when they are getting down to the last poker players to get busted before the payouts begin (also known as ‘the bubble’), the tournament proceedings will slow down so that tables are dealt cards ‘hand by hand.’ This practice is designed to prevent two players from getting knocked out at the same time, thus making it difficult or impossible to assign which one makes the money and which one doesn’t. Though it certainly slows down the action, this is meant to protect the poker players who are in danger of going out.

Often when a tournament gets into this status, players will tighten up from their usual play if they feel concern over whether or not they will cash. At this point, the more aggressive players often ‘turn on’ and come looking for easy money left for the picking.