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 mark deals the cards, and when he picks up his hand and
The mark deals the cards, and when he picks up his hand and examines the cards, he is speechless because he has dealt himself a straight flush (king high in hearts)—and only one hand, a royal flush, can beat it.
The cheat to the mark's left holds the ace, king, and queen of spades
The cheat to the mark's left holds the ace, king, and queen of spades plus two low cards. The next two players usually hold three of a kind, and one of them opens the pot. After the pot is opened, the discard and the draw take place, and the cheat to the mark's left draws the jack and ten of spades for a royal flush. The other cheats also draw cards. The mark stands pat with his straight flush.