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
9. If the cards have been improperly dealt—for example, more than
9. If the cards have been improperly dealt—for example, more than one card at a time—or any player has received improper cards and this is noticed before the pot is opened, there is a misdeal. 10. If too few or too many hands have been dealt, there is a misdeal. 11. If too few or too many cards have been dealt to one or more players and this is discovered before the pot is opened, there is a misdeal unless it can be properly corrected before any one player has looked at his hand. 12. If the wrong player is dealing and this is discovered before the pot has been opened, there is a misdeal.
Exposed Cards on the Draw
Exposed Cards on the Draw The following will cover situations involving an exposed card on the draw: 1. Should a dealer expose one or more of a player's cards on the draw, the player is not permitted to take the exposed cards. They must be put into the center of the table face up, and are out of play. The dealer deals the player whose card has been exposed another card in its place. 2. Should a player expose one or more of his drawn cards, he must take them. 3. Should a dealer expose one or more cards on his own draw or if they are found face up on the draw, the dealer must take them.