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 poker. I bet when I have a good hand, and muck’em when I don’t. I can bluff. It’s just a poker game.” I sat down at the table with $150 in chips. I left the table two hours later broke. It was not a happy day. The other people at the table knew significantly more than I did about poker. (I later learned they could read me like a book.)
So, never one to give up,
So, never one to give up, I decided to read some books to learn more about Texas Hold’em poker. Books are full of useful information, I thought to myself. Books could teach me how to become a winner. I’ll just learn some poker math, and the rules, and how to read people. Then, I’ll win, it’s simple. I figured, “Hey, libraries are full of free books. I’ll go there and get some poker books.” I searched. But, I didn’t find. The librarian just wasn’t aware of any books on poker. I even looked for them at other libraries. I still came up empty. I searched at large chain bookstores. I looked at the small, independently owned bookstores. I found nothing. At the 6th bookstore I visited, I ran into a very smart clerk. He told me, “You know, maybe you could buy one through mail order.