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
And a very important rule to remember is: Don't try a bluff in last
And a very important rule to remember is: Don't try a bluff in last position when checked into. When players check, they are usually laying back for either a call or a raise. In big-money Lowball Ace to Five games, the best position in which to try your bluff is from first position—or not at all.
20. High Back to Low Draw Poker
20. High Back to Low Draw Poker My Poker research convinces me that Jacks and Back, a game I played in the late 1930s, was the forerunner of High Back to Low Draw Poker. To my knowledge, Jacks and Back was the first game in which players alternated playing both high and low Poker.