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
Changing Positions at the Table
Changing Positions at the Table At the completion of any hour of play, players may demand a new deal for a change in their seating positions. The procedure is the same as in establishing places at the table at the start of a game. The player whose turn it is to deal (1) deals for seating positions and (2) deals the next hand in play.
Tapping Out
Tapping Out When a player has put all his money into the pot and no longer can bet, this is called a tap-out. That player is permitted to play for the size of the pot up until the time he no longer has money. If the other players keep betting, they put their bets to one side, as the tapping-out player has no legal interest in that side pot. The tapping-out player receives cards until the hand is completed, and should he have the highest-ranking hand on the showdown, he wins only the original pot, not the side pot. That is won by the player having the highest-ranking cards among the remaining bettors. Except in Table Stakes and Freeze-out, when a player taps out and loses, he is out of the game. However, if he wins on the tap-out and therefore has money, he may continue to play as before. A player is permitted only one tap-out during a Online Hold'em Poker session. When tapping out, a player may raise only if he still possesses an amount equal to the maximum limit so that in case of a reraise he can call the bet. A player cannot tap out with money on the table.