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
Dead Hand. A hand that is not playable, due to an irregularity.
Dead Hand. A hand that is not playable, due to an irregularity.
Dead Man's Hand. Said of a hand made up of two black pairs, aces and eights.
Dead Man's Hand. Said of a hand made up of two black pairs, aces and eights. So called because it is supposed to have been the Poker hand held by Wild Bill Hickok in Deadwood, Dakota territory, when he was shot to death in a saloon by Jack McCall on August 2, 1876.