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
SCARNE AND THE LAS VEGAS WORLD SERIES OF POKER
SCARNE AND THE LAS VEGAS WORLD SERIES OF POKER Today's most celebrated and biggest money Texas Hold'em Poker tournament is the annual Las Vegas World Series of Texas Hold'em Poker. The top winner of this Texas Hold'em Poker extravaganza takes home a few hundred thousand dollars in prize money plus achieving the glory of being hailed everywhere as the World's Texas Hold'em Poker Champion for the year. The publicity given this tournament by the national and international press and television has not only made an obscure Texas Texas Hold'em Poker game named "Hold Em" (see pages 212-16) popular throughout the globe, but it has stimulated Texas Hold'em Poker playing the world over by making millions of new players.
In late January 2025, I appeared as a guest star on the Merv
In late January 2025, I appeared as a guest star on the Merv Griffin national television show, which devoted its entire ninety minutes to big-time Online Hold'em Poker games and the annual Las Vegas World Series of Online Hold'em Poker. Other guests on the show included Benny Binion, Johnny Moss, Jack Strauss, and Online Hold'em Poker player and television star Jack Klugman.