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 everyone’s stack starts to shrink,
As everyone’s stack starts to shrink, surviving becomes an issue, especially once you get near or in the money, so call pushes a little tighter. If you wake up with a monster, like J-8, don’t be scared to call off 3BBs every time. Folding is usually too big of an error. Basically, when you are getting huge odds, especially if the pusher is aggressive, be willing to call off with a large range.
As you now know, a lot goes into playing fundamentally sound poker.
As you now know, a lot goes into playing fundamentally sound poker. Factors such as aggression, pot control, ranges and reads should all come to mind when asked about key concepts of tournament poker. Even though this volume has laid out a solid fundamental game plan to win at tournament poker, it will most likely not be enough for you to succeed simply because poker is not only played on the felt. tournaments.txttournaments.txt