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
If you don't feel you are currently blocked
If you don't feel you are currently blocked but need to learn more about how to reason through situations so that you can improve your hand range estimates and decision making, then you need to formulate a learning plan first. Here's my suggested learning plan for improving this aspect of your game:
Get a poker equity calculator
Get a poker equity calculator There are several free ones on the market. You will need one that can weight hand ranges, and is easy to use. I recommend using Ace Poker Drills Calculator, for many reasons, but it also comes with a free odds and outs trainer if you need to improve that area of your game as well. You can download it from here: ACE POKER DRILLS WEBSITE