Tournament Strategies
After receiving pocket cards, you are immediately faced with a choice: play your cards and either raise or call the blinds, or fold.
Practice Matters
The point values
The point values assigned to cards aim to correlate to each card’s Effect of Removal (EOR), which refers to the actual effect the removal of one card has on the house advantage. This then allows the player to gauge the effect of removal for all cards dealt and assess the altered house advantage of the game based on the new composition of cards.
The High-Low system
The High-Low system is a level-one (or single-level) count, because the count never increases or decreases by more than one predetermined unit. The Zen Count or Wong Halves, on the other hand, are multilevel counts and make more fine distinctions between card values. Rather than all cards having a value of +1, 0, or -1, an advanced count might include card ranks that are counted as +2 and -2. In addition, advanced players might hold a side count of certain cards, such as Aces, to deal with situations where the best count for betting accuracy differs from the best count for playing accuracy. Higher-level counts have one disadvantage: they can take away the player’s ability to act quickly and accurately. More hands played per