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
If you are seriously considering gambling
If you are seriously considering gambling as a career path, it is important you look to your predecessors like Uston and Wong and Thorp. And, before even setting foot in a casino, try card counting at home. In fact, perfect it. And, when you’re ready get off the chesterfield and hit the tables!
When you’re on the circuit
When you’re on the circuit you will need perseverance, drive and patience to stay there. Especially to stay away from the casino surveillance. You have to constantly move around and not regularly frequent the central hubs of gambling: if you get banned, you can’t come back. Start off your career humbly; bet what you can afford to lose and only start taking greater risks once your bankroll gets bigger, then bet relative to your bankroll. A professional blackjack holdem player never wins all of the time. If you are a proficient card counter, you should expect to win two-thirds of the time (says Blackwood).