Poker 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
Great card counters
Great card counters began to gain such an advantage over the house that casinos had to begin to employ methods to counter their losses. Sometimes it was as obvious as approaching suspected counters and engaging in chit- chat with them (to distract them from the task at hand). Casinos also offer suspected counters free drinks, in the hopes that the alcohol will impair their concentration. It’s a brutal world out there. But, it’s also a lucrative world…
Card counting
Card counting may not be so easy to get away with today what with the ever-prevalent ‘eye on in the sky’, digital surveillance, along with facial recognition software, and automatic shuffling machines. But, if you can get it right (it is still within the bounds of the law and rules of the game), you can expect to win about 2/3 of the time (see more below). But, before we concern ourselves with that, let’s first learn the rules of the game.