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
It is all about winning. In every hand
It is all about winning. In every hand there is one winner and every one else is a loser. There is no prize for second place. To win, you must either have the best hand or get the player who does, to fold it.
Unlike, limit poker, which is very much mechanical
Unlike, limit poker, which is very much mechanical success at no-limit poker requires the ability to "read" the other players. To not only know what they are holding, but to know what they think, you are holding. Of coarse, there is no way to be 100% sure of what your opponents have or what they are thinking, but by being observant and using the tools that are laid out in this book, you will be able to make educated guesses, that will be consistently close to the mark.