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
Burning Top Card of the Deck Before the Draw
Burning Top Card of the Deck Before the Draw Upon completion of the first betting interval and before the draw takes place, the dealer must "burn" the top card of the deck by dealing it face down onto the table in front of himself.
The Draw
The Draw When all the players have either dropped out or put into the pot an equal amount, and there are no uncovered bets in the pot, and when the active players number two or more and the dealer has burnt the top card of the deck, these remaining players may, if they desire, draw either one, two or three cards from the undealt portion of the deck in an attempt to improve their hands or stand pat. This procedure is called the draw, and it is played as follows: