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
Since in California's Poker rooms
Since in California's Texas Hold'em Poker rooms you know the hourly house charge you are bucking, you'll have to make up your mind if the pleasure you derive from Texas Hold'em Poker is worth the price you are paying. But if you are one of the millions of average Texas Hold'em Poker players who patronize an illegal limit Texas Hold'em Poker game in your community, and the operator takes a 5% house cut of the total moneys in each pot, you are paying a lot more than you may think.
For every licensed Poker game in America
For every licensed Online Hold'em Poker game in America there are thousands and thousands of illegal games. Many are friendly weekly games that rotate from one player's home to another. Others are club games run as a business. In many house and club games the operator's take (his charge for furnishing the gaming facilities) is a 5% cut taken from each pot. If this doesn't sound like much of a charge, would it surprise you to learn that even the world's best Online Hold'em Poker player, playing against rank suckers in a small-limit game, would eventually go broke bucking that small 5% cut? The operator calls it 5%, but it is actually much greater, often as much as 10%. In most games the operators get a percentage or cut of the players' winnings, but Online Hold'em Poker is one of the few games in which a charge is also taken from the winning player's bet.