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
On the showdown, a player is permitted to make use, for his fifth
On the showdown, a player is permitted to make use, for his fifth card, of any one of the three community cards turned up in the center of the table. Player must indicate verbally, at his proper turn of play, which of the three upturned cards in the center of the table he is using for his fifth card. No mistakes may be rectified after his proper turn of play has passed.
Since there are no wild cards in this game and the three common
Since there are no wild cards in this game and the three common center cards are exposed after the draw, the chances of pretty good hands are as follows. A pair before the draw is a fair hand to draw to. A pair of aces or better is an excellent opening hand, and should the pot be opened before you, such a hand is worth a raise. Three of a kind, straights and flushes are generally winning hands.