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 book publishers might advertise in magazines. The newsstand down on University Avenue has a good selection. You should try there.” I headed for the newsstand. I found what I was looking for, a magazine on gambling, what the Las Vegas executives call “gaming.” The magazine contained some information on poker, but not on Texas Hold’em. I did, however, obtain information about a dedicated high- quality poker magazine called, Card Player. I ordered the magazine, and low and behold, in the back of the magazine there were advertisements for more poker books than you could read in a lifetime. I ordered one from a particularly attractive ad.
It came in two days
It came in two days I greedily grabbed the box from the Fed-Ex man’s hands, and tore it open. Two hours later, after reading the book cover to cover, I was in the car headed for the casino. In another hour, I was back in the car, my wallet $200 lighter. As I sang along with Johnny Cash on the radio, I resolved not to let those smelly old coots take any more of my money. I ordered more books. I ordered videotapes. I bought an interactive computer program designed to play Texas Hold’em. I