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
I asked Eric to get me two decks of cards—a red and a blue—with
I asked Eric to get me two decks of cards—a red and a blue—with the same back designs as used in the Poker game and gave him the lame excuse that I wanted to go to my room and practice dealing out some cheating Poker hands. When Eric Steiner handed me the two decks of cards he said, "Scarne, be back as soon as possible."
"Okay, Eric, shall do," I replied.
"Okay, Eric, shall do," I replied. A half hour later, Steiner, Mr. Joe Brown (my alias at the time), Mr. X and Mr. Y were battling each other at a $20 and $40 limit game of Blind and Straddle, each of us having bought in $1,000 in chips. For the first fifteen minutes or so the betting moved at a slow pace. I noticed that Mr. Y was giving me the once-over, too close to suit me. It was then that I decided before I was recognized to put my cheating skill to work and get the joke over with.