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
In Section 7 the author tackles other betting strategies
In Section 7 the author tackles other betting strategies that are takeoff ’s from the ‘Ideal’ Standard betting strategies of Section 5. These strategies offer a higher Average “Winnings” per Cycle and lower Risk to Average “Winnings” per Cycle than the ‘Ideal’ Standard betting.
7. Unmodified/Truncated Betting Strategy
7. Unmodified/Truncated Betting Strategy The ‘Ideal’ Betting Strategy of Table 5-1 uses $20, $20, $40, $80, $160 and $320 bet during the Losing Streak. This is a modified Martingale strategy because the first two bets are $20 each not $20, $40, … Now, what if one should use an unmodified/ truncated Martingale bet on the Losing Streak of $20, $40, $80, $160 and $320?