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
Steiner followed suit and pushed his remaining chips into the pot.
Steiner followed suit and pushed his remaining chips into the pot. The pot now contained the total $4,000 chip buy-in. Mr. X was first to act on the showdown. As he placed his hand face up on the table for all to see, he jubilantly announced, "Gentlemen, believe it or not, I dealt myself the invincible Iron Duke, a royal flush. Did you ever see anything more beautiful? The ace, king, queen, jack, and ten of spades, the first royal flush I have ever held in all my forty years of Texas Hold'em Poker playing—and gentlemen, I dealt it myself."
While Mr. X was talking,
While Mr. X was talking, I felt a pain in my stomach thinking how he was going to react when he learned his hand was just a joke. To lessen the shock to come I hurriedly placed my diamond royal flush face up on the table and meekly said, "I also have a royal flush."