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
Another example would be if you are in the big blind
Another example would be if you are in the big blind with 9-4 with 50BBs and one opponent limps from the small blind. If the flop comes 10-4-2 and your opponent checks, you should probably bet for value, as the check probably means his hand is worse than yours.
While it may appear that he won’t be able to call
While it may appear that he won’t be able to call you with too many worse hands, he will find a way to call with all sorts of unpaired hands. If the turn is a K and your opponent checks again, you should probably check behind because at this point, unless your opponent has exactly a 2, he will probably fold all worse hands and call with all better hands.