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
Typically you'll be in a spot
Typically you'll be in a spot with a marginal hand as well since on average these opponents will be more aggressive and you'll be calling down a bit lighter. Instead of trying to call down narrow against them, turn some of your weak made hands into bluffs on the turn or river. In most situations since you caught them value betting light, they will be in difficult spots to call a raise. Take note though that against some of your really good regulars, if you do raise it needs to be consistent with some likely hand you could have, or you may be looked up light.
To take advantage of the SVB
To take advantage of the SVB you'll want to focus on spots where your opponent is still going to be betting a wide range and your equity when behind isn't that good. Also situations on the river where your combo draw hand, or one time marginal top pair, has minimal bluff catching ability against your opponent’s ability to slim value bet top, second and third pair effectively.