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 GIs used to call this the "Scarne Shuffle." It's foolproof,
The GIs used to call this the "Scarne Shuffle." It's foolproof, crook-proof and tidy as a con man's mustache . . . and it'll save you money if you never play anything but Solitaire. It also saves wear and tear on a pack of playing cards.
Glossary
Glossary The modern glossary that follows includes not only the Poker argot, technical terms and idioms that appear in the preceding pages but also a great many other colloquial expressions in common use today among the Poker fraternity. A Poker vocabulary based on the games discussed in this book plus the glossary that follows will get you respectful attention in any Poker club from Maine to Florida, from New York City to Seattle. I have permission to say the same on behalf of the legalized casino Poker rooms in Nevada and the legal Draw Poker clubs found in California. And I'm sure I can say as much for the untold thousands of Poker clubs that flourish in all parts of the world wherever English is spoken.