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
Although Poker is a game of skill, the judgments and decisions to be
Although Poker is a game of skill, the judgments and decisions to be made by even the average Poker player involve a general knowledge of the game's probabilities. The chances of being dealt any certain pat hand are the same, regardless of the number of players in the game. The same holds true in drawing cards to try to improve a hand.
The following tables apply to Draw Poker, Five Card Stud Poker,
The following tables apply to Draw Poker, Five Card Stud Poker, Seven Card Stud Poker, and many of the Poker variants found in this book. The tables list the names of each different possible hand in order of rank, starting from the top, the possible number of ways each can be made, and the chance of being dealt such a hand in the first five cards dealt, such as the original five cards dealt in Five Card Stud or in Five Card Draw Poker before the draw.