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
What do you do when you suspect a friend or acquaintance of
What do you do when you suspect a friend or acquaintance of cheating? This is a department of etiquette that Emily Post doesn't mention. It can develop very easily into a sticky situation because it is possible that an honest player may unconsciously do some of the things that amateur cheaters do and your suspicions may be unjustified. There is no need to raise a hue and cry. Your best bet is to demand quietly and graciously that the rules of the form of Texas Hold'em Poker being played be strictly followed. This should in most cases remedy what is wrong or looks wrong. If not, then make some polite excuse and leave the game. This will give no offense and do no harm to anyone's sensibilities or reputation, or to your pocketbook.
Professional and Semiprofessional Poker Cheats
Professional and Semiprofessional Online Hold'em Poker Cheats The gambling world has many names for various types of professional Online Hold'em Poker cheats. A person who manipulates cards for cheating purposes is referred to as a "card mechanic." In the western part of the United States, Nevada included, a professional card cheat who travels over the country seeking Online Hold'em Poker games to ply his trade is called a "crossroader." A cheat who specializes in palming cards is referred to in the trade as a "hand mucker" or "holdout artist." A cheat who deals from the bottom of the deck is a "base dealer" or "subway dealer." Two or more cheats working as a team are known as a "card mob." Two or more Online Hold'em Poker sharps who make use of signals to cheat are referred to as "office men" or "wire men." A cheat who specializes in the use of marked cards is called a "paper man." A cheat who deals the second card from the deck when he appears to be dealing the top card is referred to as a "second dealer" or "number two man."