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
There are many ways of beating the game alone, and
There are many ways of beating the game alone, and though the percentage in favor of the single player may be less in any given instance, it is pretty constant and quite sufficient to insure a very comfortable living to many clever people, though the card table is their sole source of revenue. The greatest obstacle in the path of the lone player is the cut. It is the bete noir of his existence.
Were it not for this formality his deal would mean
Were it not for this formality his deal would mean the money. Though he may run up a hand however cleverly, the cut sends him to sea again. Put your faith in Providence, but always cut the cards, is a wise injunction. Sometimes the cut is not made, and the adept dearly loves to sit on the left of a player who is careless enough to occasionally say, Run themi.