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
Most opponents will expect
Most opponents will expect you to check/call with your sets, top pair, and small pairs in this spot. They know that you'll expect them to continuation bet with almost their entire range, so you'll want to give them that opportunity knowing that they won't have a strong range often enough to handle much more pressure than a call.
What you'll want to answer for yourself
What you'll want to answer for yourself is, in a situation where you’re out of position to a pre-flop raiser, how do you ideally want to play each of these range of hands? Your pre-flop hand distribution is going to be comprised mostly of unpaired hands that will whiff the flop 68% of the time. You'll flop some gut-shots with suited and unsuited connectors about 16% of the time. The bulk of your range, as you know, will be with air. Your opponent will know this as well, so the line you take will need to take that into heavy consideration.