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
It was at Lindy's, however, that the most prominent members of the
It was at Lindy's, however, that the most prominent members of the gambling fraternity were found—gamblers, Poker-game operators, card and dice cheats, racetrack touts, race and sports bookies, bootleggers, mobsters and their bodyguards. Famous syndicated columnists such as Walter Winchell, Damon Runyon, O.O. McIntyre, and other writers would nightly join the colorful crowd at Lindy's to see and be seen, eat, and talk shop.
Arnold Rothstein, whom I had entertained professionally with my
Arnold Rothstein, whom I had entertained professionally with my card trick act on many an occasion over a five-year span, used Lindy's Restaurant as a kind of second office. He was given his telephone messages by the night cashier, and he held discussions with his friends and business associates there.