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
THE BIRTH OF THE SPIT IN THE OCEAN FAMILY
THE BIRTH OF THE SPIT IN THE OCEAN FAMILY No one knows surely when and where the first Spit in the Ocean game originated. The author has consulted several hundred books in various languages—English, French, German, and Italian—on Poker and card games in general and he has failed to find any mention of Spit in the Ocean prior to the late 1920s.
Contrary to the views held by many Poker writers, the basic principle
Contrary to the views held by many Poker writers, the basic principle involved in this game is not new in card games—it is quite ancient. As a matter of recorded history, the now obsolete French games of Ambigu and Brelan embraced the identical basic principle centuries ago.