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
If you look at these primary
If you look at these primary aspects of poker you may notice a commonality in many of them. This is because there are really only three main areas of poker that permeate all aspects of the game. These areas are Aggression (either the lack of or too much), Rational deduction/logic (using incomplete information and math), and Psychological control/understanding (ability to control one's psyche and understand psychology).
Once you look over your list, is there a theme occurring for you in certain areas? Do
Once you look over your list, is there a theme occurring for you in certain areas? Do you need improvement in the aggression areas because you're not being aggressive enough? Is there a need to control your emotions better so that you can have better psychological control? Let's take the different areas and average them out so you can see what area is causing you the most concern, and focus on improving that area first.