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
When the sharper at Draw Poker does not have a confederate to
When the sharper at Draw Texas Hold'em Poker does not have a confederate to work with, then he has to work lone hand. He often resorts to holding out a palmed card or cards out of a succession of previously dealt bad hands. These stolen cards he secretes about his person until the right matching cards are dealt to him. Then he switches the held-out cards back again to make a winning hand.
Naturally, the main job then is to get rid of the extra cards once the
Naturally, the main job then is to get rid of the extra cards once the held-out cards are switched back in the hand. For example, the sharper has been holding out three aces under the crook of his knee. He is dealt a fourth ace and his big moment has come. Quickly he palms the three held-out aces from under his knee and into his hand. Now he holds four aces all right, but he also has eight cards, an embarrassing number to be caught with in a Five Card Draw game. The cheat does with his three valueless cards what he did with the three held-out aces, only in reverse. He palms them out of his hand and hides them under the crook of his armpit. Hard? Yes, but it's done all the time by hand muckers.