When you play in an online poker tournament, your situations changes constantly. Your position changes with every hand, the chips in front of you and those around you will vary from hand to hand, and the situations in the tournament structure itself will vary as the game goes on. If you don’t adjust your strategy to these changes in the game, it won’t be long before you’re on the sidelines wondering what went wrong.

Take a look at being on the bubble. When poker players are on the bubble, it means that the next person to get knocked out is the last player to not win any money. If the tournament pays the top five finishers, the sixth-place player is knocked out on the bubble, and gets nothing for all his hard work.

That said, nobody wants to lose on the bubble. If you’re on the bubble, adjust your play in an appropriate way when you play poker online. Play more tightly, but don’t lock down your game completely. Be very selective about the hands that you play, but make sure that you don’t blind out. Also, if someone goes all in and someone else calls, don’t feel the need to call. Unless you’ve got the nuts, let someone else take the risk, and do the work.