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.
After receiving pocket cards, you are immediately faced with a choice: play your cards and either raise or call the blinds, or fold.
Then the whipsawing begins, one confederate betting the entire pot, another doing the same. After this has gone on for about six raises, IOU's and checks come into play. The mark will usually bet very big because he rarely if ever suspects cheating while he is dealing. Millions of dollars annually are won by sharps with cold decks.
Just to prove to the reader that it is possible for a mark caught by one of these Online Hold'em Poker mobs to lose $30,000 in one pot when playing $1 ante and pot limit—naturally with the use of a cold deck—I give you the following example: