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 So, with courtesy, you call Dr. Franklin, without betting. The Final Show Down: You show down: A. K. Q. J. 10., announcing an All- American Ace-High Straight. Dr. Benjamin Franklin turns over: K. K. Q. Q. 9.. Dr. Franklin announces, “Only Kings and Queens which loses to a united-American Ace-High Straight.” All of the players at the table seem happy with this outcome.
The moral of the story:
The moral of the story: In the newly forming United States, Kings and Queens can not win, not even at poker. Everyone knows that poker is a real American Game -in a democratic country where a “United-Straight” can easily best Kings and Queens.