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
Never having stopped to dope this out,
Never having stopped to dope this out, there are millions of Stud players who try to win under these conditions. Many of them play two or three nights a week without the slightest realization of the enormous price they are paying for the privilege of letting the operator get most of the money. And, believe it or not, many operators aren't satisfied with the way that 5% cut earns them money. They often steal extra amounts from the pot. This is usually done when making change or taking out the cut. The player who wins the pot is so pleased at winning that he seldom notices that the cut has been taken, let alone spotting the theft.
It is difficult to understand the logic,
It is difficult to understand the logic, if any, of illegal Poker-game operators. If they charged a reasonable house percentage (cut or rake) as dictated under Scarne's General Rules for Commercialized Poker (pages 60-63) they would have a Poker game most of the time. As it is, they break most of the players in a few weeks and then wonder why they no longer have a game.