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
Shy away from thin value-bets in tournaments,
Shy away from thin value-bets in tournaments, especially when the stacks get shorter. These are bets that are probably +EV, but only slightly. An example would be the same hand as above, but instead of 9-4, you have 10-3 and the board comes off K-Q, making the final board 10-4-2-K-Q.
You can now get value from a 4 or 2,
You can now get value from a 4 or 2, but even then, your opponent will show up with a K or Q from time to time and he may even fold a 4 or 2 if you bet the river. Betting here is acceptable in a cash game because if you are wrong, you can just put more money on the table. Since you can’t reload your stack in a tournament, you should avoid these bets.