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
Fortunately, however, MindPlay
Fortunately, however, MindPlay was discontinued in 2007 so it shouldn’t be too difficult to avoid. Heuristic systems that keep a count and track players’ bets looking for patterns that match the count.
Computer systems
Computer systems used by surveillance staff to target suspected players (and quantify them as a threat to the house). Shuffling when a playing increases their bet. Changing the table’s rules and stakes.• Flat betting a player or making it so they cannot change the amount they bet during a shoe.