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
Two Community Cards
Two Community Cards If a player has discarded one card he makes use of the community card with the coin on top for his fifth card. If a player has discarded two cards, he makes use of both upturned community cards. If he failed to discard, he cannot make use of the community cards. Straights and flushes may be considered both high and low hands. Example: A hand comprised of ace, two, three, four and five may be declared high or low, or both high and low. A deuce, three, four, seven, eight flush also may be declared as high or low, or as both high and low.
The strategy for Italian High-Low Draw Poker
The strategy for Italian High-Low Draw Poker must combine the best feature of play of Rockleigh High-Low, standard Draw Poker and California Lowball. The average high winning hand is considerably lower than in standard Draw, and the average low winning hand much higher than in California Lowball Ace to Five.