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
Luck does happen in some strange patterns
Luck does happen in some strange patterns and you may find that some cards come up more often than others, in a given time period. For almost 2 full years, I could not lose with pocket nines. A famous professional player won two major tournaments with 10 2. The trick is to know when to give up on your "lucky" hand. It may win for a while, but once the luck runs out on this hand, stop playing it, for the sole reason of trying to relive the glory.
Any Two Cards
Any Two Cards Ever hear a player, usually, in a $1 - $2 game, make the claim "I will see a flop with any two cards, for $2?" Granted $1 - $2 Texas Hold'em is a flop game, in that players like to see a lot of flops in hope of flopping big and raking in a big pot. But, is it really wise to play almost ever hand with any two cards?