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
However, most skilled players
However, most skilled players when they see an early position limper, will often assume that he has pocket Kings or Aces. In the long run, you will make more money by raising pre-flop.
Pocket Aces is a great hand deep
Pocket Aces is a great hand deep in a tournament, but too often is a " trouble hand", in either tournaments or cash games, when the stacks are deep. What I mean by trouble hand is that when they win, the pots are usually small, but too often when they are beat, the pots are large.