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
If a board is very dry,
If a board is very dry, you should almost always assume your opponent has a monster hand when he raises the river, especially if you have shown decent aggression throughout the hand. Assume you raise from early position to 3BBs out of your 150BB stack with K-K and a player calls on the button. The flop comes 9-7-3. You bet 4BBs and your opponent calls. The turn is the 3. You bet 8BBs and he calls. If he raises your value bet on any river besides a king or 3, you should fold because there isn’t much you can beat.
This all goes back to thinking about your opponent’s range
This all goes back to thinking about your opponent’s range constantly throughout the hand. In the last example you assumed your K-K was good, but once your opponent raised the river, his range drastically changed into a few stone bluffs and mostly hands that beat you. Be careful not to omit a hand from your opponent’s range only to find out you were wrong.