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
By the time the 1972 World Series of Poker Tournament rolled
By the time the 1972 World Series of Poker Tournament rolled around, Benny Binion had decided to feature just one Poker game, and that game was Hold Em. In my opinion, this was the perfect Poker game to choose, for the obvious reason that Hold Em, unlike all other card games, is a great spectator sport. This is because the five community cards resting in the center of the table can be seen and studied by everyone present, and, most important, can be seen by television viewers. This spectator feature, coupled with Hold Em's table-stakes freeze-out arrangement where each contestant has to ante up a $10,000 chip buy-in and cannot quit playing until he either loses his $10,000 or wins the total chip buy-in of all the contestants, has made the World Series Hold Em Poker Championship Tournament an instantaneous smash hit. This is proven by the vast publicity given each yearly tournament by the national and international press and television.
The World Series Hold Em Poker Championship Tournament held
The World Series Hold Em Poker Championship Tournament held in 1972 featured eight top professional Poker players, each of whom bought in $10,000, making a total prize award of $80,000—which incidentally was won by that colorful Texas gambler "Amarillo Slim" Preston.