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
Watching tens of thousands of Poker players
Watching tens of thousands of Poker players and thousands of Poker games down these many years, I've made it my business to observe the small fleeting mannerisms of winning and losing competitors, to cross-examine hundreds and hundreds of experts (including several winners of the yearly Las Vegas World Series of Poker) and big-time Poker players, to measure the difference imposed on the play by the stakes of the game, to observe not only that sober citizens do indeed bet $100,000 or more on a single Poker hand, but also how they bet it.
And so, I can tell you this: Every Poker player
And so, I can tell you this: Every Poker player who is a consistent winner has little tricks of his own. There are in the mass scores of such tricks developed over the lives of these players by trial and error and by costly experience into a very substantial body of Poker learning. No one player has mastered all of them. Perhaps no one player can. But I'm going to tell you about them. First, let's consider what is meant when the professional gambler says of a fellow Poker player, "He has no card sense at all."