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
Jackpot
Jackpot The following additional betting feature may be added to any of the above variations except Variations IV and V. When the opening bettor fails to have an active opponent on his first bet—that is, all the players have dropped out—the next deal is called a Jackpot. All the players must ante into the pot an amount equal to the bet made by the lone active player in the previous hand. After all the players have anted and a new hand is dealt, the opening bettor (in Jackpots, high or low card can check on the opening bet or thereafter as governed by the Stud Texas Hold'em Poker rules) is permitted to bet an amount equal to the total amount anted into the pot. In other words, if that amount is in excess of the maximum limit, the new maximum limit for that Jackpot is the amount anted into the pot before the opening bet is made.
Open Blind Betting
Open Blind Betting Each player antes a stipulated amount into the pot. Then the leader (player to the left of the dealer) opens blind or "force in" as it is sometimes called. In other words, the leader must open and bet before receiving his first two cards. The amount of the blind bet is usually the minimum bet permitted. Sometimes the game is played so that not only does the leader open blind but the second position (player to the left of the leader) raises blind. And occasionally this blind-betting procedure is carried through to the third position and becomes open blind, raise blind, and reraise blind. This type of betting is favored in Nevada casino Online Hold'em Poker rooms with high stakes and in most of California's licensed Draw Online Hold'em Poker clubs, where only Draw Poker is allowed by law. The purpose of this open blind betting is to increase the action and at the same time put the tight player at a disadvantage—rather than an advantage as he is in most Online Hold'em Poker games.