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
As more and more limpers jump into the pot,
As more and more limpers jump into the pot, be more willing to push with medium-strength hands such as J-10 and Q-8 if you know the initial limper is loose. We know from the last paragraph that players that limp behind have negligible effect because they call so infrequently. But make sure you have around 7BBs when pushing over multiple limpers because you have no fold equity with only 5BBs. However, if there are enough limpers and you can get a lot of dead money in the pot, pushing with a wide range may be profitable.
Suppose there are five limpers
Suppose there are five limpers and you push any two cards on the button with 7BBs. Expect at least one player to call almost every time. For simplicity, assume you have 35-percent equity when called. Your expected profit is then 0.1(9) + 0.9[(0.35(21) - 7] = 1.22BBs. Notice that even though you only have 35-percent equity, the dead money in the pot makes this a profitable push with any two cards. Also notice that pushing is basically break-even with no fold equity at all.