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
Three weeks later McManus was arrested and charged with
Three weeks later McManus was arrested and charged with Rothstein's murder. Thompson, Raymond, Bowe and Meehan were arrested and each was held in $100,000 bail as a material witness. Joe Bernstein had fled the state and could not be located.
A year later McManus was brought to trial for the murder of Rothstein.
A year later McManus was brought to trial for the murder of Rothstein. Titanic Thompson and Nigger Nate Raymond as the defense's star witnesses told the judge that George McManus was a "square and honest guy" and that the high-card spade game had been entirely on the level. The judge seemed satisfied with Thompson's and Raymond's testimony, so much so, in fact, that when the defense asked for a directed verdict of acquittal, it was granted by the judge.