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 Object of the Game
The Object of the Game For a player at the showdown to hold a higher-ranking five-card hand than any of the other players. The player (or players) having the best hand is declared the winner (or winners), and collects the pot. A player may also win by forcing the other players to drop out of the pot.
Preliminaries Before the Deal
Preliminaries Before the Deal All the preparations before the start of the actual play are as described under the basic General Rules for Poker: selecting the banker, his duties, rank of hands, royalties, time limit, betting limits, preparations before play, selecting the dealer and seating positions at the table, irregularities in cutting the cards, the shuffle and cut, etc.