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
These great men had worked hard
These great men had worked hard very hard, six days a week, often 18 hours a day, always under close government supervision. Directed by the often despised, but efficient, General Leslie Groves, US Army. The brilliant scientists, all very independent thinkers, all with giant egos, were successful. At least they hoped they were. In a few short hours they were to see the fruits of their labor. At 5:45 the first atomic bomb explosion was scheduled, near Los Alamos, in the barren New Mexico desert.
The brilliant theoretical physicist
The brilliant theoretical physicist J. Robert Oppenhiemer, a physics professor from UC Berkeley, directed the select team of scientists. Co-workers and fellow poker players included: Ernest O. Lawrence, the 1930 Nobel Prize winner in physics. Edward Teller the leading Hungarian theoretical physicist. Enrico Fermi an Italian Nobel Laureate in experimental physics. Isadore Isaac Rabi an immigrant