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 truth of the matter is that no card sharper or magician can take a
The truth of the matter is that no card sharper or magician can take a deck honestly shuffled by someone else, shuffle it two or three times and arrange more than a couple of cards in two different hands without previous sight of, or prearrangement of, the deck. Whenever you see any sleight-of-hand expert claim to do this and deal out a perfect Bridge hand of thirteen cards of one suit, or four or five pat Poker hands, you can be sure that the cards were previously stacked.
Actually the cheat doesn't need to do anything so spectacular. It
Actually the cheat doesn't need to do anything so spectacular. It doesn't matter whether the game is Draw Poker or Stud Poker in some gin mill or the most recondite Poker game at a Park Avenue club—a cheater can take all the chumps in the game simply by knowing the approximate location of a very few cards. If he knows the exact position of only one of the 52 cards, he will eventually win all the money in sight.