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
51. Knock Poker
51. Knock Poker Knock Poker, or Rap Poker, is the direct survivor of Whiskey Poker. This fascinating game for three to five players is designed not only for Draw Poker fans but for Rummy players as well. At the start of the game, each player antes one chip into the pot, and is dealt a hand of five cards (as in Draw Poker) from a regular 52-card deck. The remaining undealt cards are then placed face down in the center of the table to form a stock from which players draw, as in Rummy. The top card of the stock is turned face up on the center of the table to begin a discard pile, as in most Rummy games. Then each player in turn, starting with the leader (or non-dealer if there are only two players), may take either the last discard or the top card of the stock, after which he must discard a card to reduce his hand. As in Gin Rummy, a player may not discard a card he picked up from the discard pile until his next turn of play.
Each player tries to build up the best possible five-card Poker hand
Each player tries to build up the best possible five-card Poker hand from the cards he was previously dealt and the cards he takes from the discard pile and stock. The hands rank as in Draw Poker.