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 following table gives the odds against improving (assuming
The following table gives the odds against improving (assuming that you possess a hand that will not readily fall into a disastrous straight or flush) when drawing one or two cards.
ODDS AGAINST IMPROVEMENT WITH A ONE- OR
ODDS AGAINST IMPROVEMENT WITH A ONE- OR TWO-CARD DRAW Drawing One Card Odds Against Improvement Finishing ten high or lower 1 to 1 (even) Finishing nine high or lower 5 to 4 Finishing eight high or lower 2 to 1 Finishing seven high or lower 3 to 1 Finishing six high 5 to 1 Drawing Two Cards Finishing jack high or lower 1 1/2 to 1 Finishing ten high or lower 2 1/4to 1 Finishing nine high or lower 3 1/2to 1 Finishing eight high or lower 6 to 1 inishing seven high or lower 10 to 1