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News flash: Mansion Poker brings in the fish with PokerDome

MANSION.COM adds "$100K A DAY" Guaranteed          It's New Year Madness at MANSION.COM with the launch of 
our "$100K A  Day" Guaranteed Poker Tournaments, to be added to the schedule daily at  03:00GMT from 
January 3rd.          MANSION enters 2007 committed to providing premium player value,  richer  prize pools 
and higher profile action everyday with the introduction of  our $100,000 Guaranteed Poker Tournaments.          
That's right. A relative newcomer to the online poker scene, MANSION  will bring not monthly, nor even weekly, 
but daily player value to our  poker room for the direct and exclusive benefit of our Members. The  prize pool 
for each of these daily tournaments is guaranteed to be a  minimum of $100,000, no matter how many players are 
participating.          To play in these daily events at MANSION, you can buy-in directly for  US$100, or
 alternatively you can enter our US$10 Re-buy or US$20  Freeze-out satellites.          As our $250,000 
Added Value Tournament Series draws to a close on  January 2nd at 03:00GMT, the inaugural "$100K A Day" 
event on January  3rd will keep the momentum rolling to deliver ongoing and unprecedented  player value... 
a sure sign that we intend to build our reputation in  the online poker industry throughout 2007 and beyond. 
      

Poker strategy tip of the day

How to play against a Tight/Aggressive player in a tournament.

Of all the types of players that you’ll face in tournament play, the consistent and skilled tight/aggressive players will demand you to bend and flex and potentially ride the stack roller coaster before you will eventually and hopefully defeat them. They are often some of the most talented poker players in a tournament, and love to make their opponents pay for the smallest mistake. They are the most difficult to beat, especially at a table with several of them, and to beat them, it will take your best all-around poker game to beat them. So, let’s get started.

Tight/Aggressive players are just as their profile suggests. They are tight in that they don’t play many hands, but when they do, the will try and toss a saddle on your back and ride you to the river! You don’t want to get caught in their path, because they are attempting to do one thing, and that’s make you pay for it in large amounts. The best approach to a Tight/Aggressive player is to avoid them for as long as you possibly can, and build a nice stack. However, you’ll eventually need to face them, and when you do, don’t do them any favors by being unconfident. They can and will be beaten, and you might as well be the one to do it.

Chip away at them, and take what you can. If their blinds are on the table, go after them if you’ve got the goods to do it. When you have a good hand, you need to play to your own level of aggressiveness, and don’t expect them to stay in very long unless they feel they have the best hand. In the event that you are going head to head, and you have both decided to bet, raise, and re-raise, you better be working on the nuts. Anyone they can drag along with them for as long as they can, they will most certainly do it. If you can catch them in a hand where you’ve hit a nut hand on the flop and they are willing to keep charging, you have to blast them on what they will consider a bad beat. At this point, you will slide into the advantage seat and will want to continue your own version of tight/aggressive play.

There’s no need to be married to a style of play. Of course, most play with what works best and offers them the best result, but consider being able to mix it up. To use a sports analogy: In basketball, the most dangerous player is a person who can shoot from outside and penetrate to the bucket at will. In poker it’s similar in that you can take your shots, but when you go to the hole, you want the dunk! Against a tight/aggressive player, you just want to stay away from his/her game. They want to look for the drive to the bucket, and when given the opportunity, they’re going to take it. You need to do a little of both. Stealing the blinds, going big on the nuts, and bluffing early to see what you can take. It’ll take some hands on experience, but you’ll get there. Good luck!

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