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
I am proud (not vain, I hope) to repeat what many experts on
I am proud (not vain, I hope) to repeat what many experts on gambling and top-flight card magicians have been saying for the past forty years: "John Scarne is the greatest card manipulator who ever lived and knows more about cheating at cards than any other living person." Furthermore, I must add that I can flawlessly execute every cheating Poker technique described in this chapter, plus hundreds of others that space does not permit me to dwell on here.
POKER CHEATS
POKER CHEATS There are three kinds of Poker cheats: the amateur, the semiprofessional and the professional. I call the amateur that not because he doesn't win money cheating but because he is a brazen and unskilled cheat. The semipro is one who earns part of his living by cheating but lacks the manipulative skills of the real card sharp, and who, when he is working single-o, has to depend upon marked cards and other gaffed gambling equipment. The professional card sharp is the skilled sleight-of-hand expert who has spent many hours in practice to gain the necessary proficiency in crooked card manipulation. He is called a "card mechanic," and he usually travels a lot, seldom staying in one spot too long.