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
After the last trick has been played and the score recorded, players
After the last trick has been played and the score recorded, players show their Poker hands; the winning hand, in accordance with standard values of Poker hands, receives an honor score as shown in the table that follows. Both players may score trick points in the same hand, but only the winning hand gets an honor score. If the player wins all five tricks, which is known as a "sweep," he receives a bonus of 250 points.
A game consists of 20 points below the line. The player making
A game consists of 20 points below the line. The player making game receives a 100-point bonus above the line, and all partial trick scores of opponent below the line are canceled. If the same player wins his second game, he receives the 100-point bonus plus a rubber bonus of 750 points, provided his opponent has not won a game, or 500 points if his opponent has won a game.