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
Illegal Cutting of Cards
Illegal Cutting of Cards Under no circumstances may a player ask to cut the cards after a bet has been made. I must stress particularly that cards cannot be cut after the deal has started, or for that matter at any other time except before the start of the deal, unless some crookedness has been suspected.
Two-Minute Time Period for a Play
Two-Minute Time Period for a Play If an active player has called time and is taking too much time to decide how to play his hand, any other active player may call time, and if the hesitant player fails to complete his play within two minutes after time is called his hand is dead: he is forced to drop out. Note: This situation happens often in a high-limit game; I have seen players take a half hour or more to decide on a play.