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
One of my favorite things is to set up a squeezer and punish him.
One of my favorite things is to set up a squeezer and punish him. In a large online tournament, we were down to 25 people out of 8,000 that had started. I had around 60BBs and picked up A-A in middle position. A loose player in middle position raised and I just called. I knew that the players in the cutoff and on the button liked to squeeze whenever they had a chance, which is the main reason why I just called. The cutoff re-raised and the initial raiser folded. I went all-in and the squeezer instantly called.
In this spot, a lot of weaker players go all-in
In this spot, a lot of weaker players go all-in with hands like A-x and small pairs because they think they have the best hand but don’t know how to play it. They should actually just fold those hands. My opponent called me with A-J and it came J-4-2-5-J to bust me. If you read the last sentence and thought, “That’s why you don’t slow-play your hand,” you are missing the point. I got all the chips in with 91-percent equity and that’s all that matters. When playing with habitual squeezers on your left, you should be more willing to re-raise pre-flop if someone raises instead of just calling, because you set yourself up to be squeezed by calling. Think ahead and avoid trouble.