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
12. A player folding or throwing his hand in on a deal where all
12. A player folding or throwing his hand in on a deal where all players have checked is dealt out of the next deal. 13. When there are insufficient cards to complete a deal, all discards plus burnt cards will be shuffled and dealt to remaining players. 14. If a player does not call the full amount of a bet (unless tapping out) on his turn to act, he must make up the difference or throw in his hand and forfeit the amount he put in the pot. 15. In Draw, playing hands turned face down are considered dead unless call has been made and hand is still in possession of player. 16. The open or face-up cards in Stud must remain face up on the table in front of player at all times. Placing one or more of the open or face-down cards in a player's hand constitutes a dead hand, and the offender forfeits the amount he put into the pot. 17. No string or slow bets permitted at any time. 18. No splitting of pot permitted at any time except when hands are tied on the showdown. 19. In the event of a turned-up card, the dealer will deal and discard a number of cards off the top of the deck equal to the number of active players in the pot. 20. When a hand has been called on the showdown, anyone playing in the game may ask to see all active players' hands.
21. Players are not permitted to look at burnt cards, discards or
21. Players are not permitted to look at burnt cards, discards or cards remaining on top of the deck at any time. 22. Husband and wife and immediate relatives are not allowed to play at the same table. 23. No game with less than four players is allowed. 24. Only one short buy-in is permitted after each full buy-in. One buy for less than "buy-in" is a short buy. 25. Under no circumstances are players permitted to touch the pot. If a player wishes change, the dealer will accommodate him. Further more, players' bets such as ante, call, raise and reraise must be placed outside the pot perimeter to be counted and pushed into the pot by the dealer. 26. All disputes between players or players and dealer not covered above must be settled by management.