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
After the final seventh card
After the final seventh card (the river card), your opponent raised your bet. Remember he’s a “skilled” player. Now what could he have? You need to assume he’s on a Heart-Flush draw and therefore you make a count of the number of Hearts exposed. Remember your opponent needs five Hearts for a Heart-Flush. If he has four already, he has a draw of 7 remaining Hearts from 35 unexposed cards. He has a 20% chance of drawing a Heart. Should you call? Or, should you show your own expertise at poker and raise? You would really like to soundly beat this wealthy loudmouth pontificating lawyer. This is your chance to out smart him. The odds are in your favor. He maybe bluffing and you can show him up with a smart raise. So, you raise $100 with your usual gusto.
He looks at you with his dark squinty eyes
He looks at you with his dark squinty eyes blinks twice, and calls your $100 raise. You’re shocked! He called. He didn’t raise, or fold. He just called a $100! What could he have? The pot now contains $1,090.