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
Courage at the Poker table is the ability to take control of each
Courage at the Poker table is the ability to take control of each favorable situation. Example: In Stud, when you have the table beaten with one more card to be dealt, then you must have the courage to bet the limit and try to force some of your opponents to fold and thereby increase your winning chances. And those who do play will have to call your big bet at a disadvantage to themselves.
When the game runs into high betting limits, big-money
When the game runs into high betting limits, big-money table-stakes games, or the yearly Las Vegas World Series of Poker, that's the time psychological pressures take over.