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 all the players pass, they must ante again, and the new dealer
If all the players pass, they must ante again, and the new dealer deals another hand to each player; and, if playing dealer's edge, the new dealer must ante. When a player opens by putting an amount within the limit into the pot, each succeeding player in turn can do one of these three things: 1. He may pass; and, should he pass when the pot has opened, he merely folds his cards and puts them aside on the table. This is "fold ing up." 2. Should he decide to play, he must put up an amount equal to the bet of the player who opened the pot.
3. If he wants to raise, he merely says "Raise ' and puts into the pot
3. If he wants to raise, he merely says "Raise ' and puts into the pot an amount equal to that put into the pot by the opening player, plus an amount for the raise. All the other players may now either play by putting into the pot an amount equal to the total amount of the raise or, should they already have put the opening bet into the pot, merely put into the pot an amount equal to the raise. Or a player may reraise by putting into the pot an amount equal to the raiser plus an amount for the reraiser. Or he may drop out by folding his cards and throwing them into the discard pile on the table. This procedure of dropping out, playing, raising and reraising is continued until the players stop raising. If all the players drop out but one, he wins the pot. Should he be the player who opened the pot, he must show his openers to the rest of the players. If he is not, he does not have to expose his hand.