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
Scarney High-Low Draw Poker
Scarney High-Low Draw Poker This game creation of the author's is one of the most bizarre, exciting and charmingly exasperating of all Poker variations. Scarney Poker combines the principles of High-Low Draw Poker with community cards, plus an entirely new Poker compulsory-discard principle. A player may possess a straight flush and moments later be forced to break up his hand by discarding part of his hand. The Poker purist can, and will, find holes through which he can drive a truck in the architecture of this game. Its compulsory method of getting rid of cards in hand, for instance, makes a farce out of Poker skill, but the stark fact remains that when Poker players like a game, as many seem to like this variation, the game fills the bill.
The rules for standard Draw Poker hold true,
The rules for standard Draw Poker hold true, with the following exceptions and with additional rules. There are three to eight players. Six, seven or eight players make for the best game. The object of the game is for a player at the showdown to hold a higher-ranking Poker hand, or to hold fewer total points, or both at the same time, than any other active player.