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 legalized Nevada casino Poker rooms protect their customers
The legalized Nevada casino Poker rooms protect their customers against the menace of cheats switching in marked decks or the marking of cards during play by having the house dealer "burn" (discard) the top card of the deck prior to the dealing of each new round of cards. This discard rule is a precaution against marked-card cheats; 80% of the advantage gained by the use of marked cards is eliminated by this burn, or discard, rule.
Some time ago I invited six card-playing couples to my home and
Some time ago I invited six card-playing couples to my home and tried an experiment. I gave them a dozen decks of cards still sealed in their original wrappers. "You have all been playing cards for the past twenty years," I said. "Some of you have lost considerable sums of money at cards on your winter vacations in Florida. These packs— four Bridge, four Poker and four Pinochle—were made by twelve different manufacturers, and each has a different back design. One deck is marked and can be read from the back. I'll bet that in an hour's examination none of you can find it."