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
Before joining a Poker game, a
Before joining a Poker game, a scertain the minimum and maximum limits, find out if the game is being played with any special house rules and whether the number of raises is limited or unrestricted. You need this information to determine whether you have enough money on your person to sit in the game. There is no law at Poker that says a player can't sit in a $5 limit game with a $10 bankroll, but you must realize that you will probably lose your $10 on the first pot and get plenty of criticism from the other players. Only very rarely will you be lucky from the start and win many times the $10 invested.
The smart Poker player
The smart Poker player has a couple of hundred dollars as a cushion in a $5 limit game, and the same ratio applies for smaller or larger limits. For example, a player should figure his cushion at $40 for a $1 limit; at least $20 for a 500 limit, etc. The smart Poker player reasons that his skill will win for him over several hours of play but if he lacks sufficient money to overcome a streak of bad luck, which may occur in the first few hands, he has, for that evening, lost any opportunity of putting his skill to work.