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
A low three of a kind (aces, twos, threes, fours, fives or sixes) is an
A low three of a kind (aces, twos, threes, fours, fives or sixes) is an excellent starting hand because it will usually win for high with or without improvement and may also win the low. A pair of aces plus a low card is also an excellent three-card opening hand. A hidden low pair plus a low upcard is not really a good hand but it is worth a one- or two-card draw, provided that the cost of playing is not too excessive. Naturally, if you sit there and wait for three low cards before entering the pot, you'll be playing very few hands and your opponents will consider you a rock, causing you to lose the element of deception which is essential to playing a winning game.
Following are the various starting three-card hands that I
Following are the various starting three-card hands that I recommend. 1. Any three low cards (ace to seven). 2. Any low pair with an ace hidden. 3. A pair of aces plus a low card. 4. Any three of a kind. 5. Three-card flush with a low upcard. 6. Three cards in sequence no higher than 8-7-6.