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
WSOP Main Event dropped
WSOP Main Event dropped nearly 28%, from 8773 in 2006 to 6358 at the 2007 Main Event. The game today remains much more popular than the pre-boom period, with WSOP Main Event attendance having stabilized near the 2007 level, in part due to higher growth levels internationally.[8][9][10] Based on the 6685 entries to the July 2011 launch of the
2011 Main Event,
2011 Main Event, it appears that the "Black Friday" indictments, on April 15, 2011, have not reduced the recent level of poker activity. Three of the biggest online poker sites serving players in the United States had their web domains seized and shut down by U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York, which alleged they were in violation of