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
Benny Binion and his son, Jack, are the owners of the highly
Benny Binion and his son, Jack, are the owners of the highly publicized Horseshoe Casino, situated in Glitter Gulch in downtown Las Vegas, where once a year they host the World Series of Poker. Johnny Moss, dean of the Las Vegas big-time Poker players, has won more than $8 million during his Poker-playing career—and has lost it at the Las Vegas dice tables. Moss was the first to win the World Series of Poker tournament more than once. The other big-time gambler to appear on the Griffin show was the big six-foot seven-inch Texas Poker whiz Jack Strauss, a man who throughout his life has bet on most anything that moves including a cockroach race. He once bet $250,000 on a pair of hidden nines in a Seven Card Stud game and was called by Benny Binion with a pair of hidden jacks.
The last half hour of the Merv Griffin Show was devoted to John
The last half hour of the Merv Griffin Show was devoted to John Scarne and his card miracles. Griffin had had a Poker table with cards and chips set up on stage. The four television cameras were several feet away, ready to spot every finger movement I made from four different sides. "This will be fun," I thought to myself, "with four television cameras on top of me and three of the world's top Poker players seated at the same table with me to try and spot any flaws in my card manipulations."