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
"But," you say, "should I make the flush,
"But," you say, "should I make the flush, it may not win; therefore, shouldn't the pot make me better odds?" The answer is no, for as a rule there isn't too much money in the pot before the draw; and, second, a flush will win many more times for a player than it will lose.
The Draw Poker tables shown in Chapter 10,
The Draw Poker tables shown in Chapter 10, The Mathematics of Poker, are intended as an aid to better Draw Poker playing. A player who has a fair idea of the chances of improving his hand in Draw will have a great advantage over the player who does not have the vaguest idea. It is suggested that a player try especially to memorize the exact chances of bettering certain hands, such as a pair, a four-card straight and a four-card flush.