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
Push a very wide range from middle position with 6BBs.
Push a very wide range from middle position with 6BBs. You will have some fold equity even with a 6BB stack when you push from middle and late position. Once you lose your fold equity, you have to rely purely on your hand’s showdown value, but as long as players will fold, you can push a wide range of hands, such as 2-2+, A-2+, K-6+, Q-8+, J-7+, 10-7+, 9-7+, 8-7, suited connectors and suited hands with one card king or higher or two cards 6 or higher.
You have the most possible fold equity
You have the most possible fold equity from late position because only a few people remain who can call. But your pushing range should become slightly dependent on the players remaining to act. If they call wide, don’t push hands made up of low cards, but if they call very tight, consider pushing any two cards. Again—and this is really important—always be aware of whom you are playing against, their calling range, and what they think about your pushing range.