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.
After receiving pocket cards, you are immediately faced with a choice: play your cards and either raise or call the blinds, or fold.
Most of the Draw Poker strategy found under standard Draw Poker or in California Draw Poker with the Bug will be of value. Stay out of high-stakes Open Blind games until you've mastered Draw Poker Jacks or Better. Sometimes the game is structured after Blind and Straddle so that not only does the leader open blind, but the next player to his left raises blind, and occasionally this is carried through to the next player and becomes open blind, raise blind, reraise blind.
For rules and strategy of this type of game, see game number 2, English Draw Poker, or Blind and Straddle. Straight Draw Poker, or Anything Opens