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
Balancing on Paired Boards
Balancing on Paired Boards Paired boards have increasingly become a game of "chicken" for no-limit players. When players started figuring out there were very few combinations of an opponent’s hand that could withstand a lot of pressure, paired boards became more heavily contested situations. A lot of pressure applied to an opponent on a good paired board can cause a lot of opponents to fold out an incorrect range simply because it's difficult to know someone's bluffing frequency in a given situation until you know their game pretty well.
An example of equity on a low paired boards
An example of equity on a low paired boards using the exact same opening hand ranges for our opponent of 23.4%. Your opponent open raises, and you call and see a flop of: 7c7d3h.