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
1. Each player except the dealer antes a chip into the pot.
1. Each player except the dealer antes a chip into the pot. 2. The dealer deals each player (except himself) five face-up cards, one at a time, in Stud Texas Hold'em Poker fashion. 3. The dealer then deals himself five face-up cards (called put cards) one at a time. As the first put card is turned up, any player who has a card or cards of the same denomination antes to the pot one chip. For the second put card, the rate goes up to two chips, four if it is the third, eight if it is the fourth, and sixteen chips if the player matches the fifth put card. After the dealer's fifth upcard has been dealt and the holders of matching cards have contributed to the pot, the dealer places his five face-up cards on the bottom of the deck. 4. Now comes the payoff to the players by way of a second deal of cards, and these cards are called take cards. The dealer again deals himself five cards, one at a time, but this time the holders of matching take cards collect from the pot at the same rate that governed the put- card contributions. 5. If there are any chips left after the dealer's fifth take card has been turned up, the dealer takes them. But if the pot does not have enough chips to pay the winners, the dealer must make good.
The dealer has a chip advantage equal to the original antes.
The dealer has a chip advantage equal to the original antes. However, with a rotating deal, this advantage is equalized.