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
What would you do?
What would you do? The best thing is to double down. You double your bet and agree to take only more hit. The logic here is that you have a good chance of landing a 10-value card on your next hit, which would bring your total to 19 – a very competitive hand.
What to do next?
What to do next? Logic says you should stand. You might be tempted to hit, given that 14 is a middle-of- the-road figure. But there’s a fairly high chance, here, that the dealer will bust. Given that the dealer must keep hitting until 17, he’ll need to take at least two more cards before he’s allowed to stand. There’s a good chance, then, that he’ll bust.