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
Lead Small Over Bet:
Lead Small Over Bet: This works well on paired boards, or hands where you have a lot of backdoor outs. You get your opponent to define their hand a little more, and then make them make a difficult turn decision by slightly over betting the turn. Most people don't have to deal with overbets often, so unless they have a big hand, usually opponents will give up.
In the above example, a weak regular
In the above example, a weak regular open raised in the cut-off to 3 BBs with effective stacks of about 100 BBs. You decided to call in the big blind with As5s because your opponent seems pretty weak and not too aggressive post flop. The flop comes Qh4s7c. With 7.5 BBs in the pot, you bet under half the pot with a 3 BB bet. If your opponent just calls, you can assume they don't have much of a hand, and with back door nut flush draws, a backdoor wheel draw, and likely an over card that is good you can over bet most turns and get folds from most of your opponent’s range.