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 are two types of dry boards
There are two types of dry boards in general. Low to mid dry boards, and broadway dry boards. If you take an opponent who is opening 23.4% of his range and compare it against a common calling range for you where you whiff the board and don't have a pocket pair in your hand, you'll see how much your equity rises as you add more hands to your range. We'll say your opponent continuation bets the board almost 100% of the time, and we'll use a flop of: 2c5d9s as an example.
Dry Low Board
Dry Low Board Check/Call with Gutshot: ~39% equity versus your opponent’s range. (76s, 76o, 87o, 87s, 86s, A3o–A4o, A3s–A4s) . Check/Call with Air: ~40% equity versus your opponent’s range. (ATs–AJs, ATo–AQo, KTs+, KJo+, QJo, QJs, JTs) . Check/Call with small pair: ~54% equity versus your opponent’s range. (33–44, 66–88) . Check/Call with Top Pair: ~68% equity versus your opponent’s range. (A9o, A9s, T9o, T9s, J9s, 97s+, 98o, J9o) . Check/Call with a Set: ~94% equity versus your opponent’s range. (22, 55, 99) Combined equity of all ranges: ~42% equity versus your opponent’s range. Combined equity of made hands: ~73% equity versus your opponent’s range.