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
Stripped Deck. A deck with certain cards removed, such as the 40-card Italian
Stripped Deck. A deck with certain cards removed, such as the 40-card Italian deck in which the eights, nines and tens have been removed from the deck.
Strippers. Crooked decks in which high cards are trimmed narrow, low cards
Strippers. Crooked decks in which high cards are trimmed narrow, low cards wide in the middle. The cheat uses them to cut when betting on high card. Otherwise rarely used to cheat at Poker.