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
Straight Draw Poker for five or fewer players is a superior game to
Straight Draw Poker for five or fewer players is a superior game to standard Draw Poker because in these five- or fewer-players games standard Draw Poker pots are won all too frequently by the opener, and often require a number of redeals because no player possesses a pair of jacks or better as openers.
The game requires a very similar strategy to standard Draw Poker
The game requires a very similar strategy to standard Draw Poker except that there is considerably more sandbagging (check and raise), refusing to open with a good hand in order to raise the eventual opener. So the first three players under the gun should exercise restraint in opening.