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 play of the hand: The players cut for high card. The player
The play of the hand: The players cut for high card. The player cutting the highest card becomes the first dealer. The deal alternates in subsequent hands.
First stage of play: Five cards are dealt to each player as in Draw
First stage of play: Five cards are dealt to each player as in Draw Poker. The non-dealer plays first. He may stand pat or discard and draw from one to three cards. By drawing cards he doubles himself, that is, he is penalized doubly for each trick he loses in the play-out period. If, after his draw, he is still not satisfied, he may discard and draw a second time. This automatically redoubles him and he is penalized quadruply for each lost trick.