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
Another common situation is when a player calls a raise
Another common situation is when a player calls a raise with junky suited cards, hoping to flop a great hand. Suppose you are on the button with 9-5 and someone in middle position raises. If you flop a flush draw, you can’t fold but may find yourself calling multiple bets only to lose your stack to a larger flush.
Know what you are going to do on the next street,
Know what you are going to do on the next street, depending on which card comes. Say you raise with K-J and get two callers, one aggressive and the other passive. If it comes K-9-6, you will probably continuation-bet. Before you bet, you should know what you are going to do if the aggressive player raises, if the passive players raises, and if one of them calls and you see either a good, neutral or bad card on the turn. If you decide you would have to fold to anyone’s raise and also have to check-fold a lot of turns, you should strongly consider checking, as that will get you to a showdown without being bluffed off a fairly strong hand.