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
Reasonable equity when called.
Reasonable equity when called. Hands with Ax and Kx contain blockers against your opponent’s range. So it cuts down on the possible big ace and king combos your opponent will have. Additionally the Ax and Kx hands can outflop or out turn your opponent’s 4-bet calling range since a lot of these hands will be JJ+ depending on your opponent and their position. Some hands like KTs and QTs can be profitable 3-bet calling hands, but in certain situations out of position, they also make good 4-bet bluffing hands.
Small pairs like 22–55
Small pairs like 22–55 for example, are not hands that you can 4-bet bluff and fold with 100 BB effective stacks. You'll have anywhere from 35.7–37.3% equity versus your opponent’s shoving range so you'll be committed to calling. As a rough rule, any hand that has about 31–32% equity versus your opponent’s 5-bet jamming range, you cannot fold once you 4-bet.