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 1: Why are you playing?
Chapter 1: Why are you playing? his should be a simple question really, but I seem to stump a lot of students when I ask them. Are you playing for money? For competition? For vacation money? To put the kids through college? Put yourself through college? As a full-time job (grinder)? To win a WSOP bracelet? For fame? To be a balla and have lots of women/men? Knowing why you are playing is important so that you don't end up wasting energy during your poker career on things that aren't very necessary.
For example, if you're playing to win
For example, if you're playing to win some extra vacation money, you don't want to spend your time constantly looking to play against the best players at the table. Conversely, if you're playing to win a WSOP bracelet someday, you don't want to spend most of your time bum hunting tables.