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
Later I learned they were two French multimillionaires from Paris
Later I learned they were two French multimillionaires from Paris (whom I shall refer to as Mr. X and Mr. Y). They were both big-time gamblers. Mr. Y had once lost $300,000 at a single dice session in George Raft's London Colony Club without ever batting an eyelash.
"Eric, what's their business?" I asked.
"Eric, what's their business?" I asked. "They head a law firm in Paris," replied Steiner with a nonchalant shake of his head. "Scarne," he continued, "the tall one loves to play Poker. He pictures himself as a champ Poker player and whenever he's here in London he spends a couple of hours at the downstairs cardroom playing Blind and Straddle."