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 (4) Save your money, read books, go to the movies, attend plays, listen to music, have pets, and travel. Have a quality life far beyond poker and gambling. (5) Treat your wife like a Royal Flush; never muck her no matter what. Joe had a group of things he said to never do: (1) Never sleep at the poker table. (2) Never drink alcohol at the poker table. (3) Never lend nor borrow money across the poker table. (4) Never cheat. (5) Never stop looking for cheating by others. (6) Never be distracted at the poker table while in a hand. (7) Never show your hand unless it’s paid for. (8) Never play with short money. (9) Never play timidly. (10) Never play for a miracle draw. That’s the advice Joe gave me while we sat together at the poker table over a period of several months. He knew how to win at poker.
Poker Stories with Winning Lessons
Poker Stories with Winning Lessons He knew how to survive in a gambling environment. He knew how to enjoy life. Joe was a teacher that taught things that really mattered—in both poker and in life. Joe originally said, “I am no teacher and this is no school.” That’s what made Joe a truly great teacher.