Play Satellites In Order To Improve Your Hold Em Poker Game
If you want to win poker tournaments and not merely be satisfied with appearances at the final table, I strongly suggest that you play in satellites so that you become used to "endgame" poker play, that is, when the table is shorthanded with big stacks and big blinds. Satellites are ten-handed minitournaments where players put up one-tenth of the buy-in to a poker tournament and the last player standing (actually, the last person sitting!) wins a seat in the main event.
For example, to play a satellite for the WSOP's first $2,000 buy-in limit Hold'em event (where several hundred players are expected each year), 10 people put up $220 each, and the winner gets a seat in the $2,000 buy-in event. The seat allows the satellite winner to contend in an event that will pay more than $400,000 for first place! In this two-step process, you can run $220 into over $400,000 in two days!
Playing satellites simulates what it's like at the final table of a poker tournament. In order to win a satellite, you start out playing 10- or nine-handed and continue eliminating players until you're playing two-handed (heads up) for the seat in the tournament.
Playing in multiple satellites also improves your short-handed limit Hold'em nontournament game (in the side games). When you play nontourney Hold'em, you'll often find that the game will either end up shorthanded (five players or less) or become shorthanded for a time while you're waiting for new players to join up. If you have no experience in these short-handed game situations, either you'll have to leave a potentially profitable game (when it fills up again) or you'll probably lose money, because shorthanded play is quite different from nine-handed play. Satellites let you practice and improve your short-handed game, because you skip all the effort of getting to the "final table." You're already there, and as players start getting knocked out, you'll begin gaining experience that will help improve your shorthanded game.
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