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
It may demonstrate to the tyro that he cannot beat
It may demonstrate to the tyro that he cannot beat a man at his own game, and it may enable the skilled in deception to take a post-graduate course in the highest and most artistic branches of his vocation. But it will not make the innocent vicious, or transform the pastime player into a professional or make the fool wise, or curtail the annual crop of suckers but whatever the result may be, if it sells it will accomplish the primary motive of the author, as he needs the money. The passion for play is probably as old, and will be as enduring, as the race of man.
Some of us are too timid to risk a dollar, but the
Some of us are too timid to risk a dollar, but the percentage of people in this feverish nation who would not enjoy winning one is very small. The passion culminates in the professional. He would rather play than eat.