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
Whiskey Poker
Whiskey Texas Hold'em Poker This game is the ancestor of all Texas Hold'em Poker games, but is seldom played today. The dealer gives five cards face down to each player and deals an extra hand ("widow") of five cards face down in the middle of the table. He must deal to each player in turn around to the left, one card at a time, then to the widow, then to himself last. Each player, beginning at the dealer's left, has the option of exchanging his hand for the widow, or keeping it as it is. If he takes up the widow, he places his five cards face up on the table and they become the new widow. Each player in turn has the option of taking up one card or all of the new widow and replacing it with cards from his hand. If a player wishes to play his original hand, he signals by knocking on the table, but he cannot draw and knock at the same time.
The process of exchanging cards continues around the table until
The process of exchanging cards continues around the table until some player knocks. A knock means that this player will show his present hand when it is his next turn around the table, and that thus each player has only one more chance to exchange cards. No player may draw after he has once knocked. A player may knock before the widow is exposed, if he wishes to.