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
Blog About It
Blog About It If you aren't afraid of writing, find a place where you can make a poker blog. State what your goals are, and spend time each week or two updating your blog with your progress. It's an easy way to help keep yourself accountable to your goals if you have others reading and encouraging you on. If you don't think you are a good writer, try any ways. There are tons of places now-a-days to do this; I'm going to plug my favorite place that has lots of friendly encouragement from others: http://pokerzion.com/Poker_Forum/blog.php
Make Poker Friends
Make Poker Friends Find other poker players that have similar goals to your own and become friends with them. Even if it's a distant online friend, find other people that can assist and help keep you accountable to your own goals. Make sure your poker friends know what your goals are. If other poker players are checking in with you and asking frequently how poker is going, it's going to motivate you to want to have good reports to give back to them. Make sure to ask how your friends are doing as well, and make it a mutually beneficial relationship.