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
Passing the Deal
Passing the Deal A dealer cannot pass his deal in his turn to deal unless incompetent to deal the cards.
Dead Hands
Dead Hands If a player holds too few or too many cards during the betting interval or at the showdown, his hand is foul or dead. But should this be discovered after that player has collected the pot, it stands as a legitimate hand.