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
Determining Pot Odds
Determining Pot Odds to Calculate Correct Bet Size I will now reverse the situation and this time you have a made hand and your opponent is on a flush draw. In this situation you don't want to bet so much that you opponent will fold, but you should bet an amount large enough that if he calls, he will not be getting correct pot odds.
Your objective is to bet
Your objective is to bet the maximum amount that you feel your opponent will call. This will optimize your profit, in the long run. Often, a player will flop a big hand, like a set, and will try to keep the other players from drawing on him. He will bet so much that a player, on a draw, will not want to stay in the hand.