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
Mr. X's hands were visibly shaking
Mr. X's hands were visibly shaking as he dealt Steiner his two requested cards. Mr. X next turned to his law partner, Mr. Y, and looked him straight in the eye as if he were trying to convey a message. He softly asked, "How many, please?"
There was some thirty seconds of silence
There was some thirty seconds of silence as Mr. X and Mr. Y kept looking into each other's eyes before Mr. Y responded meekly, "I'll play these."