Subject: Tips For You While You Duel-SetoKaiba26

These are just some tips that should work in a duel, and possibly give you 
a slight advantage. Okay, here they are.

1.) NEVER let your opponent see your eyes clearly. If you have a terrible 
hand, and you're worried about what's going to happen, the worst possible 
thing you can do is show your opponent your eyes. That lets them know you 
are worried, because your eyes show fear. If you need to, wear sunglasses 
when you duel.

2.) NEVER give up. Let's use an example. If you have one thousand Life 
Points left, one of your monsters has Mask of the Accursed on it (which 
makes it so the monster it is equipped to can't attack and also the 
controller of the card loses 500 Life Points at each of your Standby 
Phases), and you know for a fact that you don't have any more Tribute 
Monsters left in your deck (which would let you tribute your monster and 
destroy Mask of the Accursed), don't give up. The right magic/trap card may 
come up.. Maybe Monster Reborn would come up so you could take like a 
Blue-Eyes or something out of your Graveyard and win. Or maybe De-Spell 
would show up to destroy Mask of the Accursed. So you get the point, duels 
can be easily turned around.

3.) NEVER give your opponent an opportunity to see your hand. If you have 
to get up and go somewhere really quick, like to get up and get the remote 
for the T.V. always keep the back of your hand towards your oppopnent. You 
need to keep your opponents guessing about what move your going to make.

4.) Now here's a tip I learned from someone else. The others I found out 
myself unless stated otherwise. Always take time with your moves and go 
over your face-down cards and your hand several times. This will give your 
opponent the idea that you have more options than you might actually have. 
Oh yeah, there is no need to use this tip if you DO have a lot of options. 
It's just a bluff.

5.) I'm sure most people already know this, but if your in a serious duel, 
NEVER use Convulsion of Nature (both players have to turn their decks 
upside down and continue dueling, so they can see each others cards). If 
you have it in your deck for a tournament, take it out. If someone else 
uses it, use De-Spell or whatever to destroy it. You don't want that card 
in your deck.

6.) If you want to save a lot of time and thinking power, get the Life 
Point counters you can find on Pojo's Yu-Gi-Oh! section. It's on the left 
side of your screen and says, "Life Point calculators." I got two from the 
top link, but use whatever you want.

7.) Try to bluff. When you really need to tribute, bluff. Here's what I 
usually do. I do one of those quite laughs that go like, "Hm hm hm," and 
then say, "This duel's over." Then I lay down the cheesy card, then be sure 
that you are THINKING that the card you laid down was really good (THAT IS 
AN ESSENTIAL PART, because then it'll show in your eyes that the card is 
awsome). Then, make sure you're smirking, then quietly say, "Your move," in 
a sort of cocky way. This will intimidate most duelists.

8.) If someone outside of a tournament asks you if you want to duel, then 
says that you will both put your rarest card up for grabs to the winner, 
most of the time you will want to say NO. People that say that are usually 
very good duelists with amazing cards. Get why they do that? Because they 
know that most of the time they will win. Don't go around losing your 
Exodia cards. Then you wouldn't be happy.

I hope these tips will help you defeat your opponent. If they don't, give 
me an e-mail and I'll see what I can do to fix them. I am also open to 
ideas; feel free to give me some. Here's my e-mail: 
<mailto:sephirothhajime@yahoo.com>sephirothhajime@yahoo.com

Unless stated otherwise, these tips all came from me.


                                       ~SetoKaiba26~