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
Tapping Out
Tapping Out If a player has put all his money into the pot and no longer can bet, and when that player is permitted to play for the size of the pot up to the time he no longer has money, this is called a tap-out. If the other players keep betting, they put their bets to one side, as the tapping-out player has no interest in that side pot. The tapping-out player receives cards until the hand is completed, and, should he have the highest-ranking hand on the showdown, he wins only the pot, not the side pot; that is won by the player having the highest-ranking cards among the remaining bettors. A player is permitted only one tap-out during a Texas Hold'em Poker session. A player when tapping out can raise only if he still has an amount equal to the maximum limit, so in case of a reraise he can call the bet. A player cannot tap out with money on the table.
Improper Fold-up
Improper Fold-up If a player decides to drop out of the pot or fold up, he cannot give an indication, verbal or otherwise, until it is his proper turn of play. Strict observance of this rule will make for a better game. Should he fold up out of turn his hand is dead.