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
Display of Ability Excessive vanity proves the undoing
Display of Ability Excessive vanity proves the undoing of many experts. The temptation to show off is great. He has become a past master in his profession.
He can laugh at luck and defy the law of chance.
He can laugh at luck and defy the law of chance. His fortune is literally at his finger ends, yet he must never admit his skill or grow chesty over his ability. It requires the philosophy of the stoic to possess any great superiority and refrain from boasting to friend or foe. He must be content to rank with the common herd.