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
Exposing the First Card of a Round
Exposing the First Card of a Round If the dealer exposes the top card of the pack before the betting has been completed on the previous round, he leaves the card face up on the pack until the betting on that round is completed. After the betting has been completed on that round, the dealer must burn, or bury, from the top of the pack as many cards (including the exposed card) as there are active players in the game. Under no conditions are the players permitted to look at the burned cards. Thereafter the play continues according to the rules.
Improper Dealing
Improper Dealing A dealer is not permitted to deal the first card face up and the second card face down. The first card must be dealt face down, becoming the player's hole card.