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
"Before that game of high spades began that night, Rothstein took
"Before that game of high spades began that night, Rothstein took me [Thompson] aside and suggested that we play partners, and I agreed. However, later in the evening, when Raymond and Bernstein entered the game, I decided to end the partnership in order to work with Raymond and Bernstein. We knew each other real well, having participated in many swindles together. We had worked together in many Poker games in Texas and California. We knew all the Poker cheating methods such as signaling and playing the best hand, fixing the high spades, using strippers and marked cards. Raymond and Bernstein were two of the best Poker cheaters and connivers, and I thought we might do a little business together that night. Sure, we cheated Rothstein out of the $319,000 in markers, and if it wasn't for that drunk McManus shooting Rothstein we might have collected our money."
When I asked Titanic Thompson how come that when he was
When I asked Titanic Thompson how come that when he was arrested as a material witness to the Rothstein shooting he told the New York City Police that McManus had taken him, Raymond and Bernstein to the Poker game that night and that the game started about ten minutes before Rothstein's arrival, Titanic Thompson replied, "That game took place more than thirty years ago. How do you expect me to remember everything?"