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
Klondike
Klondike This game, which is known also as Tennessee, is played like Cincinnati or Lame Brain, except for a slight dealing variation. Five cards are dealt to each player, face down; then the dealer turns up five community cards from off the top of the pack, one at a time, with a betting interval after each.
Five Community Cards
Five Community Cards In the showdown, each player selects the best hand from his five plus the exposed five cards. Klondike is played with progressive betting. That is, each betting unit is increased one unit on each round and a raise must be double. For example, if the betting unit is one chip, the first interval would require a bet of one chip; the second round a bet of two chips; the third, three, and so on. If you wish to raise, say in the fourth round, you would have to double the bet, or put eight chips in the pot; a reraise in the fifth round would cost twelve chips. In this system of betting, there is no checking—you must bet, call or drop. The betting position progresses, too. In other words, the first position—at the left of the dealer—must bet first on the first round; the second position— the second player to the left of dealer—bets first on the second interval; the third position first on the third round; and so on.