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 Design of Card Counting Systems
The Design of Card Counting Systems The primary goal of a card counting system is to allocate point values that correlate directly with the card’s EOR (referred to above). The larger the ratio between a given point value, the better the player’s ability to correlate the actual EOR. However, they do add complexity to the system i.e. they provide the counter with more calculations to keep track of. Therefore, the ideal system is usable and offers the highest average dollar return per period of time when dealt at a fixed rate. All that said, systems aim to achieve balance in three categories:
In other words
In other words when the table is hot i.e. your count is reaching the positive numbers, it is time to bet big because what you put down on the table will likely generate profit. If you are counting with a good system, you should be walking away with money in your pocket every time you bet in the positives.