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
Avoid calling a raise
Avoid calling a raise with a weak starting hand if there are other players to act, behind you.
There are times when you may want
There are times when you may want to limp in. If you have a drawing hand or a small pair. With these hands, you may want to see a flop as cheap as possible. By raising, you run the risk of being re-raised and either having to pay a big price to see a flop or having to give up the hand and leaving your raise in the pot.