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
If one or more cards are exposed
If one or more cards are exposed in cutting or in reuniting the cut packets, there is a misdeal. 2. If the pack has not been offered to the proper player to cut, and the pot has not been opened yet, there is a misdeal. If the pot has already been opened, and the irregularity has not been discovered, the deal stands—there is no misdeal. 3. If the pack has not been cut and the betting has not started, there is a misdeal. 4. If one or more cards are observed face up in the pack before each player has received his five cards or the betting has not yet started, there is a misdeal.
5. If a player's card is exposed by the dealer before the draw, there
5. If a player's card is exposed by the dealer before the draw, there is a misdeal. 6. If the dealer exposes one or more of his own cards at any time, the deal stands—there is no misdeal. 7. Should a player expose one or more of his own cards at any time, the deal stands—there is no misdeal. 8. If an imperfect pack is being used with fewer cards than the standard pack or with duplicate cards and it is discovered before the pot has been collected, there is a misdeal. Play immediately stops when the imperfect pack is discovered, and all the players get back the amounts they put into the pot.