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
The Beginning of the Deal
The Beginning of the Deal The dealer deals each player face down one card (which is known as the hole card), starting with the player to the dealer's left and rotating clockwise, dealing the last card to himself (the dealer), then one card face up to each player in the same order. Then he places the pack face down on the table in front of himself so that the cards are handy for the following part of the deal. The hole card is very carefully protected by each player to keep it hidden from his opponents. The hole card is the only card in Stud Texas Hold'em Poker that is unknown to the other players, and on the rank of this card depends the betting and the outcome of the hand.
Each card that is face up on the table shall be known as an upcard,
Each card that is face up on the table shall be known as an upcard, after the expression I coined for the American servicemen during World War II.