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
Of the hundred-odd private Poker games that my aides and I
Of the hundred-odd private Texas Hold'em Poker games that my aides and I scouted during my Texas Hold'em Poker survey, we found that cheating in one form or another took place in one out of ten games. My male and female helpers detected three decks of marked cards in use and spotted cheating in one form or another taking place in seven other Texas Hold'em Poker games. Most of these male and female cheats spotted in action were very amateurish and it was sometimes difficult for my survey helpers to distinguish between the amateur cheat and the thoroughgoing, no-holds barred, honest Texas Hold'em Poker player.
The one-in-ten ratio varies from Poker game to Poker game and
The one-in-ten ratio varies from Online Hold'em Poker game to Poker game and town to town, depending on the players' ability to detect cheating. A knowledge of cheating methods and the ability to detect them is your best protection against dishonest players in private games. It is for this reason that the most ethical, fastidiously honest Online Hold'em Poker games are those in which players are top-notch gamblers, gambling operators, gambling-house employees—and card cheats. When they play together, the game is nearly always honest. It has to be because they play in an atmosphere of total and icy distrust and their exhaustive knowledge of the mechanics of cheating makes using the knowledge much too dangerous. They do not cheat because they fear detection and its consequences. But there are times when a new cheating method or device comes into possession of a big-time gambling cheat, and if he believes it will not be detected by other sophisticated gamblers, he certainly will not hesitate to put it to use in any kind of Online Hold'em Poker game. For example, in the early sixties the late "Nick the Greek" Dandolos, the most famous gambler of this era, was cheated out of $500,000 with a radio cue prompter (which was new at the time) during a two weeks' session of Online Hold'em Poker and Gin Rummy. The game took place at a famous Las Vegas Strip hotel casino. Nick and the cheat who fleeced him were attired in bathing suits, and the cheat's accomplice with telescope and radio cue prompter operated from a hotel room overlooking the pool. The player cheat's radio receiver was hidden under his bathing suit. Incidentally, the table and chairs were fastened to the pool's concrete floor to prevent Nick the Greek from moving his cards out of range of the telescope.