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
Betting out of Turn
Betting out of Turn The following rules apply to staying, calling or raising out of turn. A player making a bet out of turn must leave the bet in the pot. He cannot take it back, and the play reverts to the proper player. When it is the proper turn of the player who bet out of turn, he must do one of the following: 1. If no bet has been made by any preceding player, the bet stands as is. 2. If a bet has been made by a previous player smaller than the bet made out of turn, it stands as a raise. 3. If a bet has been made by a previous player equal to the bet out of turn, it stands as a stay or call. The player who bet out of turn cannot raise. 4. If a previous bet was raised by another player and the bet is in excess of the amount bet by the out-of-turn player, the out-of-turn player may drop out of the pot, stay or call by equaling the bet made by the previous bettors, or reraise the pot after equaling the bet.
Verbal Betting
Verbal Betting If a player in his turn of play announces orally that he is making a bet, he must abide by the announcement. He cannot increase or decrease the bet. Should a player make an announcement not in his proper turn of play and has not placed any money in the pot, it should be disregarded and considered a joke or an attempted bluff.