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
"What limit do they play?" I inquired.
"What limit do they play?" I inquired. "Oh, it's a small twenty- and forty-dollar-limit game—and do you know what? Mr. X never fails to invite me to play. He's a Poker degenerate and likes to play with our top English Poker experts regardless of his losses. Furthermore, Scarne, he thinks of himself as one who knows everything there is to know about Poker and is always bragging that he can't be cheated at Poker."
"One of those guys," I thought to myself.
"One of those guys," I thought to myself. Several minutes later, as Mr. X and Mr. Y were leaving the bar, Mr. X shouted, "Mr. Steiner, how about you and your friend joining us in the cardroom for a little Poker playing?"