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
Table 6-1 provides an modified ‘Ideal’ betting strategy
Table 6-1 provides an modified ‘Ideal’ betting strategy that brings down the maximum bet to $100 (down from $320) and the six bet losing streak loss to $235 (down from $640) both sizeable reductions. However, the Average “Winnings” per Cycle also drops from $9.44 to $2.46.
To avoid huge losses one can reduce both the win and lose streaks
To avoid huge losses one can reduce both the win and lose streaks from six to four, change the win streak bets to $20, $10, $5 and $5, and change the lose streak bets to $20, $30, $45 and $85. This change reduces the maximum bet on a loss streak of four bets to $85 and the cumulative amount when lose to $180. However, the Average “Winnings” per Cycle has only been reduced from $9.44 to $9.33. There is no ‘hole’ at a win streak of 2 and the difference column runs from $80 to $40 to $20 for lose streaks 2, 3 and 4W which results in a constant $9.33 per cycle. Nice! This author likes the looks of the results of Table 6-2 and the analysis tools provided herein has proven their worth.