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
Take any hands you have questions about
Take any hands you have questions about and post them for review by other poker players on your favorite poker forum(s). Make sure to add any notes and reads you have on players, and your own thought process. Remember, it's ok to be wrong, this is how you learn. If you don't like posting on forums, call up some of your poker buddies, or talk to them on chat applications and ask their opinions. Get your mind engaged in these poker situations and make sure to pay attention to how your friends and others think about poker. This is critical in gaining insight into how other personalities reason through situations. It's invaluable information. How you think about poker and situations will not be the same as someone else, and learning to reason through someone else's poker lens is a key part of becoming really successful at poker.
Answer questions by other poker players
Answer questions by other poker players about hands they've played on your favorite poker forum(s), and/or ask your friends about tough poker situations they've been in recently. Give as many reasons as you can about why you think one decision or play is better than another. Don't just say, "Hey, you should raise!", and definitely don't say, "What the hell are you thinking, donk?!? That's an easy fold!" That approach is not conducive to learning and it won't win you any poker friends. 6. If there's an area of the math part of poker that you know you struggle with, find material in the form of books, articles, and/or videos that will help you understand this aspect better. If you are unsure where to find such material, go on a poker forum and ask. If there are several areas that you know you struggle in on the math side, pick on topic a week or every two weeks, month, whatever time frame is realistic for your schedule, and commit yourself to learning about it. Do it one area at a time.