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
Since I was the last voluntary straddler,
Since I was the last voluntary straddler, Mr. X was the first to act. Mr. X pushed $40 in chips into the pot and, wearing a big smile, half-shouted, "I bet forty dollars. "
Steiner raised and bet $80. Mr. Y without a second wasted cried
Steiner raised and bet $80. Mr. Y without a second wasted cried aloud, "I call the eighty and raise forty." I pushed $120 into the pot and said, "I call." Mr. X reraised $40. And so it went around the table several times, reraise, reraise, reraise, call, reraise, reraise until all of Mr. X's and Mr. Y's chips were in the pot. Steiner and I collectively had some $100 or less in odd chips still left. I pushed my odd chips into the pot and muttered, "These few chips won't help me any. Let the winner take all."