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
POKER PROBABILITIES
POKER PROBABILITIES A good player must have a fair idea of Poker odds, percentages and probabilities. Without such knowledge he has no good way of deciding on his course of action in the various situations that arise, no way of making any mathematical analysis on which to base a decision. This information is given under the various game headings and in the Poker tables in this chapter. These same tables can also be used to prove the relative value of Poker hands and to settle disputes that arise regarding the chances of drawing certain valuable hands in Five Card Draw Poker, Five or Seven Card
It would be simple if all one had to do to become a winning player
It would be simple if all one had to do to become a winning player was to memorize the following Poker tables. But knowing the exact strength of your hand or the exact chances of bettering your hand on the draw will not always help you, because the playing habits of your opponents will often throw a monkey wrench into your best-laid mathematical plans. Example: A big raise by a habitually tight player means quite a different thing from the same big raise by a drunk who has already been caught trying to steal (bluff) the last half-dozen pots.