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
Casino Poker
Casino Poker Thanks to liberal gambling regulations in the State of Nevada and on Native American Indian Reservations across the United States, gambling houses (or casinos) have proliferated. Many of these casinos have well equipped poker rooms where tens of thousands patrons flock to play poker. These poker rooms attract a variety of players from novices wishing to play poker for the first time, to recreational players looking to play poker once a month for fun, to professional poker players, those individuals using poker as a
professional sure-fire money making
professional sure-fire money making activity. Playing in a casino against professional poker players is very different from playing poker at home against family and friends. Playing casino poker requires a high level of poker skill, patience, experience, and some luck, in order to win; especially when playing against individuals dedicating their life and livelihood to the game. When first starting to play poker in a casino, most players need help. It’s important to read poker books and poker magazines (e.g., Card Player Magazine), to play simulated computer poker games, and/or to get individualized instruction from an experienced poker player (a poker teacher). Unfortunately, most novice poker players new to casino poker learn successful play the old fashion way, they “pay” the seasoned poker professionals for “lessons.” Hopefully, the following stories are the beginning of a reader’s poker education. For only a well rounded poker education involving reading and studying, computer training, all combined with years of practical experience will allow a novice poker player to play and win on a regular basis in a casino filled with professional players.