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.
After receiving pocket cards, you are immediately faced with a choice: play your cards and either raise or call the blinds, or fold.
Small ball does have its flaws, the primary one being that it is tough to get all-in with a strong hand. My slightly modified small-ball strategy will get all the money in whenever you want to while still getting the action that eludes the long-ball player.
Poker appears fairly simple, but it just might be the most complicated game ever invented because it involves both math and psychology to varying degrees, depending on the hand. The next section will teach you pretty much everything you need to know to win in today’s tournaments. Of course, everyone’s general strategy could change, making the material less relevant in the distant future. You must be able to change with the times. Numerous older players, who used to be the biggest winners in the game, now just scrape by because they’ve failed to adjust.