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
Grandpa calls and raises 15 cents.
Grandpa calls and raises 15 cents. Junior folds. Mother also folds. It’s now just you and the old coot, Grandpa. Does he have an Ace- High or a Pair of Aces? With Grandpa, you never know. You look at him carefully looking for a “tell.” You look to see if he appears to be bluffing. He just smiles back at you, in his kindly grandfatherly way. You delay, you take your time, you think it over, and you reluctantly fold.
Grandpa wins the pot.
Grandpa wins the pot. Grandpa turns over his two hole cards, he shows the 6. and 9 .. Grandpa looks at you and says, “No guts, no glory! I love playing poker with weak players!”