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.
After receiving pocket cards, you are immediately faced with a choice: play your cards and either raise or call the blinds, or fold.
It was during this same period that a few outstanding individuals became better known by their nicknames than by their real monickers. These were the days of Babe Ruth, the Bambino; Jack Dempsey, the Manassa Mauler; Al Capone, Scarface; Arnold Rothstein, the Brain; Jesse L. Livermore, the Boy Wonder of Wall Street; William J. Fallon, the Mouthpiece; Ivar Krueger, the Match King; and William V. Dwyer or Big Bill Dwyer, the Bootleg King.
During this period of American history, New York City, like the rest of the country, was a gambler's paradise. The center of the gambling action was on and off Broadway from Forty-second Street to Sixtieth Street. Five Card Stud games were found in every pool hall and private and social club, as well as in countless private dwellings.