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
There is $50 in the pot.
There is $50 in the pot. You being silent instantly raises the suspicion of all of the lawyers. When in silence you must be hiding something. They begin cross-examining you in an aggressive style. As a group they start asking, “What’re you hiding? Why are you not speaking? Do you have a high hidden Pair? Why did you call? Why didn’t you raise? Why did you call against an Ace?” Finally, the judge tells them all, “Shut up and play poker—not twenty questions.”
Card progression: (Hidden Cards) (Open Cards)
Card progression: (Hidden Cards) (Open Cards) Lawyer 5: X X A. K. You: A. K. A. K. Poker Stories with Winning Lessons Hidden Thought: You draw the K., a great card, you now have the top Two Pair. You note that if Lawyer 5 is trying for a Heart Flush, the K. didn’t help him.