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
Progressive Draw Poker is played like standard Draw Poker with
Progressive Draw Poker is played like standard Draw Poker with the following exceptions. 1. On the draw, a player may stand pat or draw one to five cards. 2. The player to open is required to hold a specific rank hand, which increases in rank with each successive deal. 3. The first deal requires that a player's hand must possess a pair of jacks or better to open. 4. Should all the players pass (not open the pot) on the first deal, the requirement for openers on the second deal becomes a pair of queens or better. If the pot is not opened on the second deal, a pair of kings or better is required as openers for the third deal, and a pair of aces or better for the fourth deal. 5. The requirement for the fifth deal is kings or better; for the sixth, queens; and for the seventh, jacks; and then back up to aces and back to kings, etc. 6. Once the pot has been opened by a player, the game reverts back to Draw Poker, jacks or better as openers, etc.
If you like to increase the size of the Poker pots,
If you like to increase the size of the Poker pots, add this progressive ante variation to your game. When the original ante is two units, the second ante must be four, the third, eight, up to a previously agreed maximum ante of sixteen units. With such an ante, the betting limits should be two and four units. This variation is not recommended for small-time players or pikers.