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
If you indicate strength, pre-flop
If you indicate strength, pre-flop it is difficult for players to call a continuation bet on the flop, unless they not only improve, but the improvement is good enough to feel that they can beat your hand.
Seat position will also help dictate
Seat position will also help dictate what starting hands are good to come in with. The more aggressive your opponents are, raising most of the time, the better your starting hands should be.