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
Misdeals
Misdeals Whenever a misdeal occurs, there must be a new shuffle and cut. The same dealer deals again. Should the same dealer make a second misdeal, the deal passes to the player to the dealer's left.
Misdeals—Yes or No?
Misdeals—Yes or No? 1. If one or more cards are exposed in cutting or reuniting the cut packets, there is a misdeal. 2. If the pack has not been offered to the proper player to cut and the betting has not started, there is a misdeal. 3. If the pack has not been cut and the betting has not started, there is a misdeal. 4. If one or more cards are observed face up in the pack and the betting has not started, there is a misdeal. 5. If the dealer exposes his own or a player's hole card while dealing it, or a card is found face up while dealing a player a hole card, there is a misdeal. 6. If a player exposes his hole card after it is dealt face down, it is not a misdeal. Nor can a player call for a face-down card to be his new hole card. He must face down the exposed card, and it continues to be his hole card. A player must protect his hole card at all times. 7. If an imperfect pack is found being used containing fewer cards than the standard pack or duplicate cards, the play must stop immediately on its discovery, and the players take out of the pot the money they put into it. If it is discovered after a pot has been collected, the previous hands stand, and are legitimate. 8. If any player has been dealt out, or an extra hand has been dealt in, there is a misdeal. 9. If a player (or players) has been dealt too many or too few cards before the betting has started, there is a misdeal. 10. If the dealer has dealt a player a hole card out of turn and that player has looked at it, there is a misdeal.