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
Verbal Announcement
Verbal Announcement Verbal raising or calling is not binding. Chips in the pot denote action.
Clocking the Opponent's Chips
Clocking the Opponent's Chips In a Table Stakes game each contestant has the right to know how much money in chips every other player has on the table. Therefore it is the duty of each player to keep his chips stacked neatly so that an opponent can approximate the money value by observation. Furthermore, should a player ask another player the total money value of his chips resting on the table, that player must comply.