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 should always try to anticipate what your position will be on
You should always try to anticipate what your position will be on the final betting round. At times you can create a good position from a situation in which your position happens to be a bad one. Opportunities such as these arise constantly in both Draw and Stud. Keep on the lookout for them, and by so doing you will make more money with a winning hand and lose less with a losing hand. And one must always bear in mind that the object of playing Poker is to win money, not the most pots.
Giveaways of Player Hands
Giveaways of Player Hands Most top winning professionals that I have scouted here and abroad try hard to vary their Poker-playing mannerisms and style of play. This is done to prevent their opponents from spotting any giveaway habits. To the pros, these giveaway habits are called "tells." Most Poker players possess a tell of one sort or another—those giveaway verbal or physical gestures are almost as revealing to a sage opponent who has spotted them as seeing an exposed hand.