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
Defending from the Big Blind vs Early Openers
Defending from the Big Blind vs Early Openers When defending your big blind against early open raisers, you need to pay very close attention to a couple of things assuming you can see the flop heads up:
How tight are they?
How tight are they? Are you talking about nit tight and opening 6% of their hands or less in full ring, or 10% of their hands or less in 6-max? Are they somewhere in between or are they loose, opening over 14% at full ring and over 21% at 6-max?