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
When you have well developed perceptiveness
When you have well developed perceptiveness you'll be able to see things that others around you commonly cannot. If you couple this with self-awareness, you'll have the proper insight to know how to act on what you're seeing. If you commonly have the feeling that other good poker players at the table are making plays that you don't quite understand, then you'll probably want to put some work into this area. A few things you can do to help improve your perceptiveness:
Pay attention
Pay attention It's easy in today's society to find a million ways to distract yourself. Everything from iPods to cell phones and TV's will be an easy out to keep you from paying attention to what's happening at the table.