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
You must always be keen about sizing up situations.
You must always be keen about sizing up situations. If you are, you have a good chance of winning even if you are just an average player. For there will always be one or more players who because of fatigue, irritation, recklessness or fuzziness will play badly and give you the edge.
Whether the game be Stud or Draw Poker,
Whether the game be Stud or Draw Poker, Seven Card or Five Card, Deuces Wild or Nothing Wild, there are three very important rules of play. If you remember these rules, it is almost impossible for you to lose in an evening of Poker unless you are playing with a group of experts who also know them. If you play Poker regularly with the same group of players and find that there are a few who win consistently while the rest of you lose—leaving the possibility of dishonesty aside—it is because these players are aware of these rules and play accordingly.