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
Cheats working together are known as a "card mob." The mob is
Cheats working together are known as a "card mob." The mob is usually made up of a card mechanic, a bankroll man who supplies the necessary money to finance the operation, a couple of shills and several steerers. The latter are often good-looking girls who pick up victims on the pretense of taking them to their hotel rooms, and steer them instead into the crooked game.
The semipro who works with a card sharp helps by misdirecting
The semipro who works with a card sharp helps by misdirecting attention away from the cards at the moment the sharper makes his crooked move, by signaling the value of his hand, by making the right kind of cut when given the deck by the sharper, etc.