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 correct money-making decisions
The correct money-making decisions at Draw Poker are generally made the moment the player receives his five dealt cards. It is then that the player must decide whether to stay or fold, to take advantage of every opportunity of winning or to avoid every likelihood of losing. In order to achieve these goals it is absolutely necessary for the player to make an accurate estimate of the playing characteristics of his opponents. Whether opponents are tight or loose players is an important factor to check out because often a winning hand with tight opponents may be a losing hand with loose opponents.
There is an old Poker saying in Las Vegas
There is an old Poker saying in Las Vegas which goes like this: "A tight player will always beat a table full of loose players." I go along with that. However, the same tight player has little or no advantage in a game that involves several other tight players. Therefore a good Draw Poker player must adjust his game to the playing traits of his opponents as spotted by him during play, or as a spectator before joining the game.