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Qualifying for the EPT – avoiding bad risks and counting stacks

• 31.06.2025 2:46 pm
• Helen
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It is important while trying to qualify for the EPT that you stay focused on ensuring that you avoid taking any unnecessary risks, and at the same time win at every pot to ensure that you stay at the up side of the average stacks mark that will guarantee qualification.

By having more stacks that the average required, you are well cushioned against loosing ground as you can always increase it. You need to ensure that your game is not according to formulas or maps but according to the situation of qualifying that is in the tournament.

Be at ease with pretty cards throw away

With this kind of training to yourself, you will find it easy for you to throw cards such as QQ, AK, as well as JJ easily at pre flop. You will also be better placed to ensure that you only make correct folds when faced with danger flops when having top pairs or even AA.

Always keep in mind the fact that it is wiser to resist the urge of big hands. They can be the ones that make you lose focus of your primary goal which is to acquire the ticket to take part in the EPT.

By making sure that you don't lose focus of your objective, you will automatically develop your play to qualifying for the highest levels.

In case you find yourself in a good place to earn that seat with a pretty hand at pre flop such as QQ – 99, AK or even AQ, depending on your position, your first move is supposed to be assessing the openers or stacks that your opponent may have. In case you find that your opponent has more stacks than yours, you need to call in order to avoid being caught in a coin flip case.

In case their stacks are lesser that yours, it only means you have a bit of equity on folding. Despite the many factors that revolve around the play, you only need to pay attention to the maximum you can gain while reducing on the event that you suffer too big a loss to recover.

Calculating your stacks against all possible outcomes    

Before you make any moves, you need to generate odds for your stacks in the foreseeable future in the event of a fold, a call, or in case you will require rebuilding or even when you face a coin flip.

You need to think of all the possible future stacks scenarios in order to settle for the best decision. You need to remember that your framework remains the same, the strategy is still in play and that is why you should base your move on the chances in ads to securing a seat to the EPT.

This is very important as most players will not stop to asses the amount of stacks they will have after making their move.

Always remember that thinking in poker is the equivalent of calculating. You need to understand the implications that come with the different outcomes. This is the only way to make correct moves.

Everything you do should be to attain your main objective of wining a seat at the EPT.