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
Folding the button with your weakest hands
Folding the button with your weakest hands also decreases variance. We talked earlier about how some variance is good but when you can cut out the bad side of it, such as when you are forced to play weak hands, you should.
The final benefit of folding from the button
The final benefit of folding from the button with your weakest hands is that it keeps you out of tricky spots. When you raise the button with 8-2 and the small blind calls, if the flop comes J-8-3, you will find yourself in many ugly situations. You don’t really want to bet and fold to a raise, and many players will check-raise with air on the flop because you have been stealing their blinds so aggressively. You also don’t want to employ pot control because basically every turn card is bad for you. So, you are forced to choose one of two bad options. Tighten up a little from the button. It will save you numerous headaches and a lot of money.