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
Value of the Chips
Value of the Chips Nationwide, this is the most common evaluation of Poker chips: White—one unit. Red—five units. Blue—ten units. Yellow—twenty-five units. The value in cash of the units is entirely up to the players. It may range from 10, as in the classic penny-ante game, to $10—or $100, or $500, as in the Las Vegas World Series of Poker.
Optional Rules Better Discussed Before the Start of the Game
Optional Rules Better Discussed Before the Start of the Game 1. Before the game starts there must be common agreement on the kind of game to be played. Local conventions on such things as royalties and bonuses must be talked over before the game and clarified further by writing them on a pad. These conventions or rulings must be thoroughly understood by all players. 2. Although any player has the right to quit whenever he wants to, a time limit ending the game must be decided on before the start of the game. 3. Before play starts, there must be common agreement as to the amount of the ante if any, the minimum and maximum amount of money or chips that can be bet at any one time, and the maximum number of raises at any betting interval. As a rule a limit is rarely put on the number of raises permitted at any betting interval—but see sections on Draw or Stud Poker for details on betting.