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
As the amount of your bluff decreases relative to the pot,
As the amount of your bluff decreases relative to the pot, it must succeed a smaller percentage of the time. For example, if you bluffed 20BBs instead of 50BBs in the example above, the equation would change to 20/(20+20) = 0.5, so he would only have to fold half the time. However, players tend to call smaller bluffs more often.
While I am in love with semi-bluffs,
While I am in love with semi-bluffs, I abhor total bluffs. There are simply too many great spots in poker tournaments to justify bluffing with all your chips and zero equity. I have found ways to induce my opponents to bluff into me, so instead of putting all my money in while drawing dead, I induce them to do this, as you will see in later chapters.