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
6. Freezeout.
6. Freezeout. After the style of Poker to be played has been deter mined, each player puts an equal amount of money on the table. The game ends when one lone player has won all the table money.
7. Open Blind Betting.
7. Open Blind Betting. Players ante a specified amount into the pot. Then the leader (player to the left of the dealer) opens blind or "force in" as it is sometimes called. In other words, the leader must open and bet before looking at his five dealt cards. The amount of the blind bet is usually the minimum bet permitted. The open blind game is designed for one purpose—to force everyone to play liberally. Sometimes the game is played so that not only does the leader open blind, but the second position (player to the left of the leader) raises blind. And occasionally this blind-betting procedure is carried through to the third position and becomes open blind, raise blind, and reraise blind. This type of betting is favored in Nevada casino Poker rooms with high stakes and in most of California's four hundred licensed Draw Poker clubs, where only Draw Poker is allowed by law.