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 operator's alibi,
The operator's alibi, if you object that the 5% charge is too high, is that the ice he must pay for protection is high. It is. He has to pay quite a bit even to run a $1 limit Poker game. But it isn't so high that he has to take all the players to the cleaner's.
Many Poker players who have gone broke
Many Poker players who have gone broke stay away for a while as they try to figure out why. Most lay it to bad luck. Some think they were cheated, which is possible. But more often it's the 5% cut that did the trick. Not knowing the real reason, these losers eventually come back and try again to buck the impossible.