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
Chapter 3: Get it Together
Chapter 3: Get it Together First thing you need to do if you're going to play poker on any serious level is get your bankroll, software (if you're going to play online), and preparation together. You won't have the level of success you desire if you aren't prepared in these areas. There are countless semi-professional and professional poker players that have extremely poor money management skills, and very poor preparation. If you want to improve and move up the poker food chain you'll need to take these areas of the game seriously, and put work into them if you don't already excel at them.
Bankroll Management
Bankroll Management There are some generally accepted rules on bankroll management for cash games. Typically 30 buy-ins for the limit you're playing is a good enough cushion to absorb any negative variance. Really though, if you haven't beaten a particular stake level ever before, and you drop around 15 buy-ins, you should be moving down until you can win.