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
Women Poker cheats who work in teams of two are prone to signaling.
Women Poker cheats who work in teams of two are prone to signaling. Poker is the game where the women signal cheat has come into her own. The beauty of a signal code between two women player confederates is that they can get away with countless gestures such as fooling with their hair, getting makeup out of a handbag, settling their dresses, etc., all under cover of these apparently normal feminine movements. One movement may mean "Raise," another, "Drop out," and still another "I hold a full house," etc. Signal codes such as the above are used successfully by many a two-woman Poker-playing team of cheats in many supposedly friendly weekly games, and if suspected, an accusation is next to impossible to prove.
Back in the late forties, when Draw Poker was at its height of
Back in the late forties, when Draw Poker was at its height of popularity, almost every other fair-sized Poker game had a pair of signal cheats working. Nearly all these cheats made use of the same finger code. These signals became so common among cheats that they soon were known as the "international signs," and became known to sharps the world over.