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
GENERAL RULES FOR POKER
GENERAL RULES FOR POKER Although Poker is played in countless forms, it is only necessary to understand its two basic principles: the values of Poker hands and the principles of betting, such as the ante, opening bet, check, raise, reraise and fold (dropout). A player familiar with these can easily adjust himself to play in any style of Poker game.
Object of the Game
Object of the Game In Poker everyone plays for himself. There is no such thing as partnership play. The object of the game is to win the pot. The pot is the accumulation of bets (chips or cash) made by all the players in any one hand or deal. All the chips or cash a player puts into the pot indicate that he is betting that he holds, or will hold, the highest-valued Poker hand around the table. After the betting is over, each player exposes his five-card hand (called the showdown), and the highest- or lowest-valued hand wins the pot. A second way a pot can be won is by being the lone remaining active player in the pot when all other players for various reasons have folded or dropped out of the pot.