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
you need to have history
you need to have history or some sort of insight about how your opponent likely plays. In online games this can be as simple as recognizing someone as a regular who will likely open raise X range of hands from each position, and has some grasp of hand ranges and common lines that opponents, especially other regulars in the game, would take. Let's take a look at an example:
we have 100 BB effective stacks
we have 100 BB effective stacks in a 6-max cash game. An opponent UTG opens to 3 BBs. Everyone folds to the small blind who calls, and we have KhKs in the big blind. We squeeze to 14 BBs. The UTG player folds, and the small blind calls. The flop comes 6s9sJc. The small blind checks, and we check the flop.