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
Poker Stories with Winning Lessons
Poker Stories with Winning Lessons The game is no-limit Texas Hold’em played in a section of sequestered sewer in New York City, directly under the United Nations Building. The stakes are dollars, marks, shekels, or pounds; all hard currency. All monetary conversions are according to the daily rates published in the Wall Street Journal. As a group, spies are very concerned and knowledgeable about monetary conversion rates.
There are seven secret agents
There are seven secret agents in the game, each having tens of thousands of dollars, marks, or pounds in front of them. Four of the players have names, two are wearing masks, and one player is playing in abstentia (he’s absent from the table).