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
You stop in your tracks!
You stop in your tracks! He raised me back? What could the old man have? He can’t have three Kings, he can’t have three Tens, he can’t have a Flush, and he would never continue to raise and raise throughout the hand with a Straight draw. He has Kings and Tens and he thinks I have Queens and Tens.
So, after your careful analysis
So, after your careful analysis you raise, again. And within a split second he raises you back, again. He’s very aggressive in his raising. Usually when people act aggressive they’re bluffing—so, you raise the old coot, again!