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
opponents and past experience always helps
opponents and past experience always helps With experience, you will develop a feel for how players play their big pairs and monster flops, like sets. Some loose or inexperienced players, may play top pair and top kicker, as if it were the nuts. It is a guessing game, but the more observant you are the more often you will come up with the correct read.
I have seen countless players push
I have seen countless players push all of their chips into the pot, pre-flop, with pocket Jacks and then after every one folds, show the Jacks and state "I hate Jacks."