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 code of a professional
The code of a professional states that friendships and sympathy don't belong at the Poker table, and a pro may do anything to try and get his opponent's money as long as he does not actually cheat. However, I'm not so sure that the majority of pros would not cheat if they knew how to do so without being detected.
Today the dream of almost every Poker professional
Today the dream of almost every Poker professional in the United States and abroad is someday to win the annual World Series of Poker with its glory and the hundreds of thousands of dollars in prize money. The crook, the cheat, whose gamble is not in winning or losing but rather in getting away with it or getting caught. To the average Poker player, the man who makes his living by cheating at Poker is a crook, cheat, sharper, sharp or shark, but to card hustlers and to seasoned gamblers and house men, he is known as a card mechanic or hand mucker. Card mechanics and hand muckers are the magicians of the underworld—they deal cards from the bottom of the deck, switch Poker hands, and at times the entire deck. To protect yourself against the professional card cheat, see Chapter 14.