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
Jeffrey Pollack
Jeffrey Pollack has indicated that in the next one to three years that other venues may start holding WSOP events.[citation needed] Two locations that have been mentioned as possible expansion sites are Egypt and South Africa,[26] and the World Series of Poker Africa was ultimately launched in
South Africa
South Africa in 2010. However, it is currently treated as a WSOP Circuit event, with no bracelets awarded. The next expansion of the WSOP that included bracelet events was ultimately to Australia.[27] The WSOPE moved from London to Cannes, France in 2011. At that time, the buy-ins and payouts changed from being fixed in pounds to euros.[citation needed] The event moved again in 2013, this time to the Paris suburb of Enghien-les-Bains.[28] In November 2013, it was announced that the WSOPE would in the future alternate with the World Series of Poker Asia