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
The Color and Value of Chips.
The Color and Value of Chips. Those I recommend are as follows: 1. White, one unit; red, five units; blue, ten units; and yellow, twenty-five units. The value in cash of the units is entirely up to management. 2. The Size of the Initial Chip Buy-in. The initial chip buy-in that permits a player to gamble at a commercial Poker club table should be ten times the size of the minimum-limit bet allowed.
Examples: In the $l-$3 limit,
Examples: In the $l-$3 limit, the buy-in is $10. In the $3-$6 limit, the buy-in is $30. In the $5-$10 limit, the buy-in is $50. In the $10-$20 limit, the buy-in is $100. In the $20-$40 limit, the buy-in is $200. In the $300-$600 limit, the buy-in is $3,000. 3. The Pot Ante. The size of each player's pot ante is about 15 to 25% of the size of the minimum-bet limit.