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
The honest player's best protection against these crooks is to learn
The honest player's best protection against these crooks is to learn enough about their methods so that he can spot the most common cheating moves when they occur. The crooked angles, ruses, subterfuges, sleights and mechanical methods are so many and so varied that a detailed description of them all would more than fill this book. The most common methods can, however, be spotted when you know what to look for. Most of them require unnatural moves or actions on the part of the cheat. You may never be able to catch the expert card sharp's bottom or second deal at the split second that it is made, but there is a way of recognizing the expert card mechanic for what he is by the way in which he holds the deck. For a detailed description of the "mechanic's grip," see How to Spot a Skilled Poker Cheat, page 248.
Amateur Poker Cheats
Amateur Poker Cheats These are some of the ways you can spot an amateur cheat. 1. The amateur Poker cheat will just forget to ante and then will swear earnestly that someone else is shy. 2. The amateur Poker cheat will announce he is changing a $10 bill in the pot and take an extra buck out of the pot and considers the feat an act of skill. 3. The amateur Poker cheat will connive with another player and each will give the other some sort of signal when he has a good hand and wants his friend to drop out. For every dozen crooked moves made by the agate-eyed professional card sharp, the amateur will blandly and brazenly attempt a hundred swindles.