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
A player's position is considerably more important in Hold Em
A player's position is considerably more important in Hold Em (Seven Card Stud Texas Hold'em Poker variant) than in Draw Poker or in any other major Texas Hold'em Poker games. As in Draw, Jacks or Better, the dealer acts last and the leader acts first. Furthermore, Hold Em, due to its community cards, has four betting intervals where possible sandbagging can take place, as opposed to Draw Texas Hold'em Poker's one. One must also bear in mind that if you are in first position in games such as Hold Em, you will remain there for the entire hand. Sometimes, however, it is to your advantage to be in first position, particularly so when you make a big bet to try and drive all players out so as to steal the ante, or just to gain the advantage of playing against fewer opponents.
In Stud games in which the value of the players' face-up cards
In Stud games in which the value of the players' face-up cards determines the player's first betting position, slowplaying takes the place of sandbagging as a sort of semi-bluff in reverse.