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
BASIC VARIANTS OF STANDARD DRAW POKER
BASIC VARIANTS OF STANDARD DRAW POKER The player will find the rules governing the Draw or Closed Poker variants that follow in Chapter 3, under General Rules for Poker, in Chapter 5, under Rules for Draw Poker, Jackpots, Jacks or Better, and under each game heading that follows. For pointers in strategy, the player may refer to Chapter 4, General Strategy, and Chapter 5, under Draw Poker Strategy. For easy reference the Draw Poker and other Poker variants that follow have been numbered.
1. California Draw Poker with the Bug
1. California Draw Poker with the Bug This game is played more often in California than in all other places combined. Its popularity is due to the fact that Draw Poker is legal in California and Stud Poker is not. And so, California Draw with the Bug and all other Draw Poker-style games have a monopoly in its four hundred-odd licensed Poker clubs. Therefore it was natural for Draw Poker with the Bug to spread to private homes in California. However, this fantastic Draw Poker variant is rapidly gaining in popularity among Poker players throughout this country and abroad.