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
Protection Against the Bottom Deal
Protection Against the Bottom Deal Ordinary gamblers call the cheat who deals cards from the bottom of the deck a bottom dealer; the inner circle—the boys in the know —refer to him as a base dealer or subway dealer.
The bottom deal is considerably more difficult to execute without
The bottom deal is considerably more difficult to execute without detection than the second deal—hence very few card mechanics can deal a perfect bottom. However, good or bad as they may be, there are countless Poker game crossroaders who favor the bottom deal as their cheating ace in the hole.