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
The third rule is:
The third rule is: When you have the best hand, make your opponents pay. If you have the pair of aces back to back, make it as expensive as possible for the man with the pair of queens to play. It is true that every once in a while he will outdraw you, but you will beat him much more often, and you can afford his occasional victory.
There are many fine points to the game of Poker;
There are many fine points to the game of Poker; but if you get nothing out of this section of the book but these three rules, you will be a consistent money winner against most players. The following tips, hints, bits of strategy and warnings added to the above, if studied seriously and applied faithfully, should make you a winner at Poker. I have selected for discussion those traits possessed by gamblers who make their living or a part of it from Poker, i.e., Poker hustlers. Some of the warnings to the reader were inserted after watching numerous Poker games in which cheaters operated. If the reader believes that a few of the tips given are too severe— such as "Never give a Poker player a break even if he is your best friend"—then he can simply declare his attitude at the start of the game by saying, "Boys, if you get them, bet them up, because that is what I am going to do." If you fail to bet a cinch hand for all it's worth when you hold one, you will rarely, if ever, be a good Poker player. The best gamblers have a slogan: "You must pay to look."