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
sit and go
sit and go A poker tournament with no scheduled starting time that starts whenever the necessary players have put up their money. Single-table sit-and-goes, with nine or ten players, are the norm, but multi-table games are common as well. Also called sit n' gos and a variety of other similar spellings. slow play See main article: slow play.
slow roll
slow roll To delay or avoid showing one's hand at showdown, forcing other players to expose their hands first. When done while holding a good hand likely to be the winner, it is considered poor etiquette, because it often gives other players "false hope" that their hands might win before the slow-roller's is exposed. small blind See main article: blinds. smooth call See "flat call". smooched when someone manages to catch a slightly better hand. like a player catching a slightly better 2 pair.. A5 vs A7 .. 7 on the river.. (you've been smooched).