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
Any flop has about a 72% chance
Any flop has about a 72% chance of containing an Ace, King, or Queen. So if you are holding Pocket Jacks be prepared for at least one over card to hit the flop. This doesn't mean that you need to give up your hand, especially if you are up against only one or two opponents. Lets say you are in a hand with pocket Jacks and after making a pre-flop raise, two players make the call.
The flop comes out as:
The flop comes out as: Just because there are two over cards, doesn't mean that you do not have the best hand or that you can not get the player with the best hand to fold.