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
Thinking ahead will save you many headaches
Thinking ahead will save you many headaches that most players bring on themselves constantly throughout their careers. They make marginal bets without considering what might happen on future betting rounds. I always wonder what most players think about when it is their turn to act. If they were thinking ahead, they would usually know what to do as soon as the action was on them.
Thinking ahead also comes in handy
Thinking ahead also comes in handy when you have been super-aggressive and think someone is about to make a play on you. If you can anticipate this, you will make a killing off these players. In a WPT event, a player at my table constantly raised in late position, stealing my blinds as well as my opportunity to steal blinds. I finally decided I had to do something about it. He raised from the cutoff and I re-raised with Q-7 from the small blind. We were both around 80BBs deep. The flop came Q-x-x, I made a continuation bet and he called. The turn was an ace and we both checked. The river was blank, we checked and my middle pair won.