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
Poker tournaments constitute one of the most profitable forms of poker
Poker tournaments constitute one of the most profitable forms of poker for a few reasons. The primary reason is that if you have an edge, it compounds over time to become a huge edge. If you have 70-percent equity every time you get all-in, you will find all the money coming to you quickly. Compare this to casinos that run off a 1-percent edge. If they can survive on 1 percent, then surviving on 20 percent, even in the short run of a poker tournament, is quite possible.
Another reason poker tournaments are so profitable
Another reason poker tournaments are so profitable is that most amateurs in a tournament play to get in the money and not to win the tournament. Most people feel that they have accomplished something when they win some money, even if it is only their initial buy-in. When you buy into a tournament, for all practical purposes, that money is gone. Your eyes should be on first prize, not getting a little money back.