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 is different from most games
Poker is different from most games because not all of the necessary information for playing the game is evident. In games like chess or checkers, opponents can see all of the moves, and all of the pieces, all of the time. On the other hand, in poker, selected cards are always hidden. When you make a bet your opponent doesn’t know if you have a strong hand, or a weak hand. Determining when to bet your hand, when to raise the bets of others, when to bluff (betting with a weak hand), and when to fold, is the art and fun of poker. There are many types of poker games: high games, low games, split games, draw games, stud games, flop games, and wild card games. Fun, sociable games can be made-up using house rules with selected wild cards (such as Jokers, Deuces, Treys, Nines, One-Eyed Jacks, Suicide Kings, etc.) Even children are able to play a variety of poker games against their parents and grandparents, on an equal basis, over the kitchen table. In addition, there are poker games played every day in casinos and cardrooms throughout the world. At the highest level of play, there are world-renowned poker tournaments (e.g., The
World Series of Poker
World Series of Poker with more than two million dollars in prize money going to a single winning player.