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 BLUFF AND ITS STRATEGIC IMPORTANCE
THE BLUFF AND ITS STRATEGIC IMPORTANCE Only in Poker, business and politics can a person publicly lie to his friends and indulge in various forms of chicanery and deception (excepting cheating or stealing) and still be considered respectable by his friends.
The bluff is an attempt to convince opponents
The bluff is an attempt to convince opponents that one possesses a higher-ranking Poker hand than all other participants when the truth of the matter is that the bluffer possesses an inferior hand. In short, the bluffer is trying to steal the pot by trying to frighten his opponents into believing that he holds the best hand—thereby causing them to fold and throw in their hands. This the bluffer tries to accomplish by a verbal show of assurance as to the strength of his hand followed by a series of raises and big bets.