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
Implied Odds
Implied Odds Another factor that may be considered in deciding weather or not to call a bet is "implied odds". Implied odds are expectations that more money may go into the pot on later bets.
Unlike pot odds
Unlike pot odds estimating implied odds, is not based on math, but intuition. This intuition is a result of many factors including, observations of how your opponents been playing, your overall experience in similar hands, the texture of the board and your table image.