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
4. After the betting round, if two or more active players remain,
4. After the betting round, if two or more active players remain, there is a showdown in which the highest-ranking hand—three of a kind, pair, or a high card—wins. In hands of equal rank, natural cards beat hands including wild cards. As between two hands both possessing wild cards, the highest-ranking wild card wins. If two players hold pairs of equal value, the highest-ranking odd card wins. If the odd cards are of the same value, high suit wins. The suits rank: spades (high), hearts, diamonds, and clubs (low). There are many Brag variants, but the one just described is a good example of the basic game.
54. Pokino
54. Pokino This variant of standard Draw Poker, also known as Poke, is a game for two players only, using a standard 52-card deck. The object of the game is to score as many points as possible. Each hand is divided into two stages. First stage is played as in Five Card Draw Poker; in the second stage the cards are played out in the form of tricks.