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
Variation in betting limit.
Variation in betting limit. Often three figures are mentioned such as 5 cents, 10 cents, and 15 cents, or 50 cents, $2, and $4—which indicates that the ante and opening bets are the low amount, and after the draw a bet must be either the middle or highest amount. The same holds true for any other three-figure limit, regardless of the amount.
Jackpot.
Jackpot. Should all the players pass on the first deal, the amount of the opening bet on the second deal can be any amount not higher than the ante already in the pot, provided the limit bet is less than the amount in the pot before the opening. Thereafter, each bet after the draw can also be the amount of the possible opening bet. The dealer must announce the jackpot limit to the opening player, and that amount cannot be exceeded in betting, except if it be lower than the maximum limit.