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 dealer must ask each player
The dealer must ask each player (starting with the nearest active player to his left and rotating to the left, clockwise) at his proper turn of play how many cards he wants to draw, if any; to each player he says, "How many?" The player either says he's standing pat or tells the dealer how many cards he wants to draw. The dealer must wait until the player discards a like number before dealing the new cards; or he passes the player by should the latter say "I stand pat or no cards."
In Draw, every player must take the cards
In Draw, every player must take the cards he asked for if the dealer has dealt them off the deck. If too many, player must discard to make a legitimate hand. If too few, he has fouled his hand, as he has fewer than required for a playing hand. Dealer must take the exact number of cards he dealt off the deck for himself. Cards once discarded cannot be taken back. If a player does not get the correct number of cards he asked for, the dealer must rectify the mistake-—provided no one at the player's left has drawn cards.