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
Soon after the 1976 tournament
Soon after the 1976 tournament I ran into Brunson in Las Vegas and asked him about that particular hand. His reply follows: "Scarne, I thought Alto was bluffing and I was going to try to outbluff him and steal the pot. So I got lucky and made a hand. However, if I hadn't got lucky and caught that winning hand, I still had $74,000 in chips to battle Alto again."
In the last pot of the 1977 World Series of Poker,
In the last pot of the 1977 World Series of Poker, the two remaining finalists, Brunson, possessing $275,000 in chips, and a young pro named Gary "Bones" Berland, battled it out for the championship and the prize money of $340,000. Strange but true, Brunson again was dealt a ten and a deuce in the hole, and as before made a full house, three tens and a pair of deuces, winning the championship and taking home $340,000 in new crisp $100 bills as the prize award.