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 with all bluffs, it is important to balance your range.
As with all bluffs, it is important to balance your range. If you only make this play with a bluff, players will quickly figure you out. Lead with sets and strong semi-bluffs from time to time. If your opponents raise, you can then re-raise and put them in a tricky spot.
I don’t use the donk-lead often,
I don’t use the donk-lead often, but it usually works when I do. You need a large bag of tricks to keep your opponents guessing. As soon as they think they know what you are doing, throw out a random play, like a donk-lead, to confuse them again.