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
Showdown Straight Poker
Showdown Straight Poker This variant of standard Draw Poker, also called Cold Hands, is strictly a game of chance where luck wins out. This game is usually played by big-time gamblers toward the end of a Poker session.
The only betting in Showdown is done before the cards are dealt, as
The only betting in Showdown is done before the cards are dealt, as if anteing into the pot. Then five cards are dealt each player, one at a time, face up, starting with the leader and rotating to the left clockwise. The player holding the highest hand wins the pot. There is no draw. All other rules are identical to those for Draw Poker.