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
When you suspect you are being floated,
When you suspect you are being floated, you should tend to go into check-call mode with decent made hands and fire multiple barrels with your bluffs. Suppose you know your opponent is a habitual floater, as you will find in most high-stakes tournaments. You bet the flop with air and your opponent calls. If you know he floats a lot, go ahead and fire again; that will usually be enough to make him fold. If he calls, you can be pretty sure he has a hand.
Another option if you know he’s floating is to check-raise the turn.
Another option if you know he’s floating is to check-raise the turn. You risk too many chips here as a bluff, but you should run this play from time to time against players that regularly float.