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
108. Night Baseball
108. Night Baseball This game, which is also called No-Peekie Baseball, is a combination of Rollover and Baseball Stud. That is, the threes and nines are wild, but when a three comes up, the player must drop or pay a penalty. Any four rolled up entitles the recipient to an additional card, which the dealer immediately gives him, face up, from the top of the pack. In the play of the game, each player in rotation turns up his cards, one by one, until his showing combination beats any cards previously turned, after which there is a betting interval. Remember that no one can look at his cards until they are exposed to all. The penalty for peeking should be stiff, say five chips for each card that is face down, or, at the beginning of the game, twenty-five chips.
109. Pass the Garbage
109. Pass the Garbage This game, which is also called Screw Your Neighbor, is a Stud game in which seven cards are dealt to each player face down. This is followed by a round of betting. After the bet, each player passes three cards to the individual on his left. After another betting round, each player discards two cards, making his best high hand, or his best low hand, if high-low is played. Then four cards are turned up, one at a time, with a bet after each card. After the final betting interval there is a showdown.