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
Jesse James wins the antes
Jesse James wins the antes and the forced come-in bet, for a pot of $22, $12 of which was his final call and raise. Jesse James steals the antes because he really didn’t have a hand worth a $10 raise. Whenever Jesse plays in a poker game with an ante, he always looks for a safe spot to steal. This was just such a spot. Jesse James always conducts his ante stealing from a very late position, after all of the other players in front of him have folded (except for the forced bring- in bet). He also believes that the players behind him are tight or conservative players and will fold if he makes an aggressive raise. Jesse always looks to only rob a bank without “armed guards present.” Similarly, he always looks to steal the antes from an “unarmed pot.” If another player has freely raised the pot ahead of
Poker Stories with Winning Lessons
Poker Stories with Winning Lessons Jesse, he will not try to steal the pot. If a player behind him has a higher exposed card, he will not try to steal the pot. An added benefit of Jesse’s ante stealing is his $10 raise gives him the table image of a “wild and crazy cowboy” looking to gamble, while in reality Jesse James is a disciplined player of premium poker hands.