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 best hands you should try to make are low nines (9-5-4-3-2) and
The best hands you should try to make are low nines (9-5-4-3-2) and eights, or any sevens. You should draw to these hands at a minimum money risk. Let your opponents play the tens and the high nines. Of course, at times when the pot warrants it, you'll have to play such hands too.
17. Kansas City Lowball Deuce to Seven
17. Kansas City Lowball Deuce to Seven A big favorite among big-time Midwestern Poker players, this game is usually played Blind and Straddle table stakes with a $1,000 buy-in. The game rules are identical to those of Lowball Deuce to Seven described above except that a small straight A-2-3-4-5 is considered a low hand and beats any pair.