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
If the amount of Poker money at stake is frightening to you, I can
If the amount of Poker money at stake is frightening to you, I can only recommend that you put aside the amount of money you can afford to lose and play that money as if it were an unlimited supply. If you lose it all, quit the game. In this way, while you're playing Poker, you'll have a better chance to win because you'll be betting with courage.
However, let's not confuse Poker courage with betting stupidity. In
However, let's not confuse Poker courage with betting stupidity. In Stud, it is not courage to chase a pair of open kings with a pair of queens by making a big bet and hoping to catch the third lady. That is reckless stupidity, not betting courage. Millions of unknowledgeable Poker players mix up the two, believing that tight players are shy and courageous players are those who are in most of the pots, raising and reraising to their hearts' content while chasing superior hands with their weaker hands, hoping for some miracle to take place.