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
Salim Damji
Salim Damji is a convicted fraudster who stole millions of dollars in an affinity fraud. The money came mostly from relatives and members of the close-knit Ismaili community. His $78 million scam was among the largest in Canadian history.[25] Charles Dawson, an amateur British archeologist who claimed to have found the Piltdown man. Marc Dreier, Managing founder of Attorney firm Dreir LLP, a $700 million Ponzi scheme.[26] Enric Durán defrauded Spanish banks and then gave away the loaned money to anti-growth organizations. Bernard Ebbers, founder of WorldCom, which inflated its asset statements by about $11 billion.
Mehran "Ron" Farhadi
Mehran "Ron" Farhadi Los Angeles real estate magnate, adjudicated to be lead conspirator in multimillion dollar fraud centered on collapse of Los Angeles-area chain of automobile dealerships[27] Ramón Báez Figueroa, banker from the Dominican Republic and former President of Banco Intercontinental. He was sentenced on October 21, 2007 to 10 years in prison for a US $2.2 billion fraud case that drove the Caribbean nation into economic crisis in 2003.