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
Twin Beds
Twin Beds This is a variation of standard Draw Texas Hold'em Poker with the following exceptions. At the start of the game each player is dealt four cards. After the dealer has received his fourth card, two horizontal rows of five community cards each are dealt face down on the table. The betting round takes place, and the dealer turns up one community card from each row (1 and 6 as shown in illustration below). Another betting round, and another community card is turned up from each row. Continue betting and turning up a community card from each row until the last community card in each row has been turned face up and the betting round has been completed.
Ten Community Cards
Ten Community Cards The last community card to be turned up from each row is wild, and so are the three cards of the same denomination as the wild card. The player may use from one to five cards from either row to improve his dealt hand, but he cannot use cards from both rows to help his hand. The strategy of this game must combine the best features of play of both Stormy Weather and Cincinnati. The average winning hands are flushes, full houses and four of a kind. However, because of the large number of community cards and betting intervals, it is important that, before you make your first bet, your five-card hand has sound values. Generally a Twin Beds player should not be betting in the game unless his present hand has such strength that he is prepared to play through to the showdown.