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
Betting
Betting A bet once placed in the pot, regardless of whether it's a player's proper turn or not, must stand. It cannot be taken out of the pot. If a player should put into the pot an amount less than the amount of the previous bettor, he must add the required sum so that his bet is equal to the previous bet. Should he fail to do so, his hand is dead, and the amount he bet must remain in the pot.
Betting out of Turn
Betting out of Turn The following rules apply to playing, calling or raising out of turn. A player making a bet out of turn must leave the bet in the pot. He cannot take it back, and the play reverts to the proper player. When it is the proper turn of the player who bet out of turn he must do one of the following: 1. If no bet has been made by any preceding player, the bet stands as is. 2. If a bet has been made by a previous player smaller than the bet made out of turn, it stands as a raise. 3. If a bet has been made by a previous player equal to the bet out of turn, it stands as a play or call. 4. If a previous bet was raised by another player and the bet is in excess of the amount bet by the out-of-turn player, the out-of-turn player may either drop out of the pot, play or call by equaling the bet made by the previous bettors, or reraise the pot after equaling the raised bet.