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
There will be a variety of board textures where it will make more sense to have a
There will be a variety of board textures where it will make more sense to have a slightly narrower, but balanced, range for that situation. Against fairly competent opponents, this is the approach you'll want to employ a majority of the time. However, like I alluded to, the more sophisticated your opponents become, the more hand ranges for each situation you'll want to add to your range distribution. It's easy on a really dry board to play a number of hands in the same manner. As the board texture gets more draw heavy, and paired, it's not quite as simple.
Balancing on Dry Boards
Balancing on Dry Boards Balancing your hand range on a dry board is the easiest to do. You won't have a lot of threats of bad cards on future streets, and with your stronger range hands you'll have tons of equity that often can't be out run by your opponent’s hand. This allows for a bit more freedom and creativity with the lines you can take.