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
drawing live
drawing live Not drawing dead; that is, drawing to a hand that will win if successful. drawing thin Not drawing completely dead, but chasing a draw in the face of poor odds. Example: a player who will only win by catching 1 or 2 specific cards is said to be drawing thin.
Profitable drawing thin requires large pot odds.
Profitable drawing thin requires large pot odds. drop To fold.Money charged by the casino for providing its services, often dropped through a slot in the table into a strong box. See "rake". To drop ones cards to the felt to indicate that one is in or out of a game. dry ace n Omaha hold 'em or Texas hold 'em, an ace in one's hand without another card of the same suit. Used especially to denote the situation where the board presents a flush possibility, when the player does not in fact have a flush, but holding the ace presents some bluffing or semi-bluffing opportunity and a redraw in case the