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
In the case of two cats or dogs of the same rank, highest-rank hand
In the case of two cats or dogs of the same rank, highest-rank hand wins. Examples: K-Q-10-9-8 beats K-J-10-9-8, as would 7-6-4-3-2 beat 7-5-4-3-2. A Blind and Straddle Game I'll Never Forget I will always harbor mixed memories of a Blind and Straddle game that took place many years ago at the swank Pair of Shoes casino in London. I was in London on official business for the British Home Office with regard to a revision of England's casino laws when I visited the Pair of Shoes casino to say hello to my friend, dapper Eric Steiner, the crack English Texas Hold'em Poker expert, mentioned earlier, who at the time was the operator of the Pair of Shoes casino. It was an "in" place for celebrities. On this night Lee Marvin, Sydney Chaplin, Henry and Clare Luce, Nicky Hilton and Sophia Loren were present.
It all began while Steiner and I were having a drink at the casino bar
It all began while Steiner and I were having a drink at the casino bar when Steiner whispered, "Scarne, see those two men at the end of the bar? They just dropped twenty-five thousand dollars at the roulette table."