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
Even if your table is playing fairly loose,
Even if your table is playing fairly loose, you still need to raise before the flop from time to time. The best positions for this are early, where you have maximum fold equity because opponents assume your range is strong, or late. If there is a fairly tight player in the big blind, you should usually attack him when you have the opportunity.
If players re-raise every time you open
If players re-raise every time you open with your 20BB stack, you should tighten up and raise mostly hands with which you are willing to four-bet all-in. To add some bluffs to my range, I tend to raise hands like suited connectors that do well post-flop, just in case I’m called instead of re-raised. So, from middle and late position, if I know I’ll be re-raised fairly often, I will only raise hands like 2-2+, A-10+, K-J+ and suited connectors. If I’m re-raised, I will usually go all-in with 5-5+, A-10+ and K-Q, assuming the re-raiser is loose.