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
Whenever Rothstein spotted me in Lindy's he would ask me to
Whenever Rothstein spotted me in Lindy's he would ask me to perform a card trick or two for him and his friends. It wasn't long before I got to meet many of the nation's most famous and infamous people. Some of the gamblers and race and sports bookies Rothstein introduced me to were George McManus (alias Humphreys), who was the big-time dice book at Warren's, which operated a $2,000-limit Open Craps game in a West Side warehouse several blocks from Lindy's; Meyer and Sam Boston, two brothers who operated Darnell and Company, a Wall Street brokerage firm that was actually a front for their big-time race and sports book; Martin Bowe, a big-time race bookmaker, Poker player and close friend of Jimmy Meehan, a gambler who ran a Poker game in his apartment.
As a result of my conversations with Rothstein and the above
As a result of my conversations with Rothstein and the above mentioned gamblers I learned of Meehan's nightly Poker game, which was patronized by many Broadway gamblers, journalists, show people and businessmen. Meehan ran his Poker games in his three-room apartment situated in the Congress Building on the corner of Fifty-fourth Street and Seventh Avenue.