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
That Poker can be played commercially in only two states,
That Poker can be played commercially in only two states, and that private Poker is not permitted by law in any one of our fifty states, is an example of how unrealistic and outdated our gambling laws are. Illegal though it may be, 65 million Americans do gamble at Poker in private clubs and homes in every city and town from the Atlantic to the Pacific and from the Canadian to the Mexican borders, and in Alaska and Hawaii as well.
There are hundreds of variations of Poker played today but they can
There are hundreds of variations of Poker played today but they can all be placed in two large classes: Closed (or Draw) Poker, in which each player's cards are hidden from the other players until the showdown or the completion of the hand; and Open (or Stud) Poker, in which some cards in each player's hand are exposed to all the players as the betting progresses, all the active players' cards being exposed at the showdown.