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
The same crooked moves and artifices used at Draw are also used by
The same crooked moves and artifices used at Draw are also used by the cheat at Stud. However, the number one cheating specialty used to cheat at Stud is marked cards, because each player's hand is spread out on the table in view of all players, thereby making it easy for the cheat to read the backs of each opponent's face-down marked cards. Draw and Stud Texas Hold'em Poker variants that make use of face-down "community cards" are the favorite cheating games for marked-card Texas Hold'em Poker cheats. Signaling between two confederates is most rampant at Stud and more so at High-Low Stud Declare, where knowledge of each confederate's hand wins many a pot from the rightful winner. Signaling and whipsawing also go together. Signaling between confederates at table stakes or high-limit games is the least detectable cheating practice that takes place among top-notch Las Vegas Texas Hold'em Poker professionals. Hole card switching, although dangerous and requiring considerable skill, is also to be guarded against.
I repeat: The best protection against Poker cheats is the knowledge
I repeat: The best protection against Online Hold'em Poker cheats is the knowledge of how they operate and some ability at recognizing their slick sleight of hand and other crooked ruses. Most cheating moves, fortunately, have one or more giveaway signals, usually an unnatural action, either in preparation for the move or in executing it. If after learning how to spot these clues to trickery you still think you are being cheated at cards, your best bet is to take up some non-card game, preferably a game that can't be cheated at. Since I invented it, naturally I hope you'll pick Teeko.