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
Most players have a spot in the hand
Most players have a spot in the hand where they give up when they miss. For some it is before the flop. Against them, raise their blinds. Re-raise often against players that give up after they raise pre-flop. Against players that raise, continuation-bet and then give up, take control of the pot by floating and betting the turn or making small raises on the flop.
Some wild players tend to only give up on a hand at the river.
Some wild players tend to only give up on a hand at the river. Play your normal game against them because you have to risk too many chips to just get to the river. You are much better off making a hand like top pair against them and calling down. Sometimes trying to make your opponent fold is not the best line to take. Pay attention to the way your opponent plays all his hands, and realize that he may not play against you the same as he plays against the tight player on your left. Figure out what each player thinks of you and then determine how to win every pot where they fail to connect with the board.