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
"Well," I said, "it proves something. As a matter of fact, all twelve
"Well," I said, "it proves something. As a matter of fact, all twelve decks are marked." Since I had lied once, they wanted proof of this statement. I spent the next half hour reading the backs of cards from all twelve decks before my friends were completely convinced. They all agreed then that they would be smart to stay out of any big-money card games until they had learned how to spot marked cards.
Like millions and millions of players who play regularly and who
Like millions and millions of players who play regularly and who often lose more than they can afford, all my friends had heard of marked cards but hadn't the slightest notion of what to look for or how to examine a deck properly.