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
This assumes your opponent will call 30 percent of the time,
This assumes your opponent will call 30 percent of the time, which you will find is on the high side. If he calls less often, the profitability of the play goes through the roof.
Another semi-bluffing situation is when you have something like
Another semi-bluffing situation is when you have something like J-10 on an 8-7-3 board. If you are deep-stacked and your opponent bets, raising is a decent option, as he probably didn’t hit that board and you have a gutshot and overcards if he does call. Throwing out a semi-bluff is rarely a bad play if you can make your opponent fold a decent amount of the time while still having a lot of equity when called.