Play Hands Tight Early Poker Strategy in Texas Holdem

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" Early in a tournament, I submit that most of the time tight is right. Tights the right way to play. Now, the reason is, your chip stack, your overall chip stack, has a high value compared to the number of chips that the blind costs. So if I've got a thousand chips and the blind, the big blind, is twenty then I've got fifty times the big blind. Now let's take that scenario that we just looked and shift everybody, everyone's position one seat to the right. Ok. So that means that the person that was under the gun is now the big blind and the person that was the big blind is the small blind and small blind becomes the dealer. Ok. So instead of jack ten suited in early position he's got jack ten suited in the big blind. Now let's say in this scenario everybody played tight and folded. And then it got around to the dealer and the dealer forgetting that tight is right got a little cute. And while it might seem it's tight just to call, the real tight play would be to raise. I submit it's loose just to call with a hand like this. "