Poker 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
As the tension count becomes high
As the tension count becomes high your opponents are more susceptible to "looking you up" and paying you off. So you want to make sure you're getting the most with your big hands.
So for example, you raised before the flop
So for example, you raised before the flop in a 6-max cash game with AcQc and got one caller on the button (relative stack sizes 100 BBs). Your tension count is now at +5 at the table. You flop the nuts, and you should bet on the largest side of your bet sizing scale. Somewhere between near pot size and a pot sized bet. Either your opponent is going to have a hand in this spot, or they aren't, and the size of the bet won't impact them as much since they will be more susceptible to calling you down lighter than normal.