"Chance favours only the prepared mind"

Published on Tuesday, July 28, 2009 6:45:58 AM

Shrewd poker players are invariably the first to recognise advantageous odds, not least because an ability to accurately calculate probability is a skill that differentiates successful from moderate performers.

Do you:

a)    Try qualifying via one of perhaps twenty sites that form part of an online network where you might be up against more than ten thousand opponents intent on doing the same? Or

b)    Endeavour to qualify at a well-established poker site with a name and solid reputation that has been around for almost a century and which happens to have secured four of its own EPO seats worth $7,000 each?

The answer, of course, is (b). But this is no exclusive high-cost, exclusive tournament – in fact, if you sign up with Littlewoods Poker, they’ll give you a seat worth $66 at a late-stage EPO qualifier in addition to a raft of other valuable goodies.

Question is: can you recognise advantageous odds when you see them, or are you content to join the herd when it comes to EPO qualification?