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
Consistently put yourself in the highest EV situation
Consistently put yourself in the highest EV situation and you'll stay a step or two ahead of your opponents. There are a ton of post flop lines you can take against some of your better opponents to keep them off balance. Some of them also work really well against weak opponents who don't know how to properly react (see more on this later in this section—out of the "norm" lines). If you are unsure about a situation when you're out of position, it's always better to fold then to put yourself in a spot where you aren't confident. At some point though, you will want to push yourself to take more flops, flat, 3-bet, and experiment with your game in order to grow. Just make sure you're doing it in small steps.
Squeezing from the Big Blind vs Open Cut-Offs
Squeezing from the Big Blind vs Open Cut-Offs One of the most profitable squeezing situations in poker is when your opponent opens raises too wide from the cut-off, and another opponent flats, and you're in the big blind. You get to close the action, and you know that your opponents won't have decent hands most of the time. Of course most opponents are going to know that you know this as well.