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
After the game had ended Rothstein asked Meehan to total his high
After the game had ended Rothstein asked Meehan to total his high spade markers. Meehan tallied the markers and said, "Arnold, your markers total $319,000."
Arnold Rothstein collected the markers from Meehan, totaled them
Arnold Rothstein collected the markers from Meehan, totaled them again, called out the amount owed to each winner and then tore them up and put a match to the torn scraps of paper. All the winners now had was Rothstein's word that he owed them $319,000.