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
Draw Poker: The Granddaddy of Modern Poker
Draw Poker: The Granddaddy of Modern Poker It is an established fact that straight twenty-card Poker (minus the draw) is the granddaddy of all forms of Poker. It also is established that Draw Poker, also known as Jackpots, Jacks or Better, Closed Poker, and Five Card Draw, is the granddaddy of modern Poker and therefore will be the first to be discussed in these pages. Draw Poker (and its countless variations) is one of the more popular games at men's and women's friendly weekly sessions. Today, big-money gamblers prefer Stud or Hold Em to Draw Poker. Every adult and every teenager have probably played penny ante Draw Poker at one time or another. Children learn to play it before any other adult card game. It is the world's most popular family card game.
RULES FOR DRAW POKER, JACKPOTS, JACKS OR BETTER
RULES FOR DRAW POKER, JACKPOTS, JACKS OR BETTER Requirements 1. Two to six players make the best game, although up to eight players may play—with the following rule added: Should the pack become exhausted and there are players who still must draw cards to complete their hands, the discards are assembled, shuffled and cut, and the draw is continued. But when playing for high stakes, the maximum number of players is six. 2. A standard pack of 52 cards is used. It is best to have two packs available of different backs and colors, so a player may call for a change of decks upon completion of any deal.